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Re: Best camera for my price range?
In reply to shukero,
3 months ago
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shukero wrote:
My Needs:
I love to shoot scenery/landscapes, and I absolutely hate a lot of cameras that can take these images but have them become all grainy when you actually zoom in @ 100%.
You want a camera with a bigger sensor.
I also would love to use this camera in low light situations as I do have a night life and usually my friends do stupid things that I'd love to catch with a camera. (But sadly my current camera is really bad at this)
You want a camera with a bigger sensor and a brighter lens.
1080p movies are a love of mine. my current camera takes pretty good 720p movies, but I'd like a camera that can take great images and capture great movies.
A better car will allow you to go faster, but it doesn't make you a better driver. Likewise, a better camera will allow you to take photos in a wider range of conditions, but it doesn't make you a better photographer. Put another way, to get great images and movies, you need to learn more about using them beyond relying on the camera to adjust all the controls.
Camera filters/settings are negotiable. To be honest, I can use a digital camera just fine, I'm in the printing industry so I know the difference between a tiff, jpeg, ISO and RAW image file, but I don't necessarily use all of them.
You have to use at least one if you want an image!
My current Sony has many different camera settings such as "Sport", "landscape", "smile", "ISO", etc. modes which I'd love to have in my next camera; but if it doesn't come with 10 preset image settings, I wouldn't cry over it.
Al cameras have scene modes, which are mostly window dressing. They cost nothing. ISO is not a mode but a vital control, and not optional. If you hope to capture great images, you need to know when and how to use it.
You can get an recently discontinued camera at a significant savings, such as an Olympus E-P2, Panasonic GF3, or Nikon J1. The first two are Micro Four Thirds cameras, which have a bigger sensor than the Nikon, but only shoot 720p video. The Nikon has a slightly smaller sensor (but still much bigger than the other cameras you have owned), but does shoot 1080p video. All three are interchangeable lens cameras that are usually sold with a 3x lens. Other lenses are available to customize the camera for your photographic needs, such as a wider aperture lens for low light use.
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