lakmiseiru has decided Thinking about digital cameras. I've never owned a digicam, only film cameras. I'm a landscape/outdoors photography person (not portraits/indoors stuff), and when on trips have tended to shoot 3-4 rolls per 1-2 week trip (and generally been sad about how little I could shoot). Problem is, I need a camera... and testing by carrying one around only sort of works given my desire for landscape photography in Boston :^)
I ended up with a Canon G10, which is like a small SLR without the big shiny lens or, well, actual single lens reflex. Its glass is still quite respectable, and all the tweaks than an SLR has (manual focus, shutter and aperture priority, etc) are there. It's a bit bigger than a "normal" point and click, but not too big to carry. I'm a fan.
Asked 2 years ago
I picked something else
Get a cheap point-and-shoot to use until I figure out exactly what I want
- Mark
-
When I'm explicitly out looking, I shoot well over 200 pics/day digital; film just never did anything for me, and there was no way to afford to make *enough* mistakes to learn anything. Get something cheap, but with at least 5x optical zoom, and start shooting. Don't even *think* about DSLRs until you've shot your first 2000 pictures and have something to complain about :-) As for shooting, there's plenty of interesting landscape within 20 minutes of boston; get zipcar, or friends... I shoot birds and nature scenery, I don't shoot people at all.
- kevinr
-
I'm not sure you'd want to take a reasonably expensive digital SLR out to do the more hardcore landscape photography anyway...
- photon
-
I'm a big fan of the Canon SD series. For about $300 you could get something pretty amazing.
- kalannie
-
I recommend the Sony Cybershot. It takes brilliant pictures indoor and out, and allows you to mess around with a lot of settings (I don't, but you could!) It's not that expensive, and it's really small. That way you have something great to take around with you while you research the long-term camera.
Ian, melike, kyrandil, coolworld, madcaptenor, peggusus, escargonaut
Do some serious research, save up, and get something more expensive (SLR, different lenses, etc)
- jtu
-
Just get the Canon Rebel like everyone else ;)
- jtf
-
Any brilliant advice would certainly be appreciated. Shameless advocacy is often good, too.
- Yoyo
-
Any brilliant advice would certainly be appreciated. Shameless advocacy is often good, too.
perturbed, Susan, trs, dzm, justjenine, jesse, quince, paigep, fisherama, nelhage, constance, sauergeek, cshiley, ternus, jgadgil, Ant
Skipped (with comments)
- seph
-
you may value size/portibility over SLR
Copyright © 2006–2007 Best Practical Solutions, LLC • Contact us
If you make a stupid choice because a website tells you to, it's your own damn fault.