Hi!
Well, I'll try to be short as possible:
I'm off to buy a new camera, that i'd like to use for a hobby photoing and learning doing amazing pictures. As my knowledege about digital photography is not very good (yet
), of course i'd like some suggestions while i'd point you some directions i have in my mind.
Somehow i'm pretty sure that i'd like a DSLR, but after you read the post, feel free to recommend me some other option. An entry-class DSLR, of course.
First of all, as with little photograpic experience I don't know what is the power of image stabilisator in practise. Because I have somehow limited myself to Nikon D40X, D80 and Olympus E-410 and E-510. One does't have it ant the other does. But those Nikons can be purchased with AF-S DX VR (Vibration reduction) lenses, that somehow will probably do the trick...And let me just add, that i really don't have steady hand and don't want to carry around a tripod all the time. Somehow I'd think, that image stabilisation is a must-have, but don't know how's in practise. I could be wrong.
The other ting is about autofocus at Nikons, which is provided only by lenses (AF-S or AF-I). Do you see a big drawback at that? I think i will purchase a box with 2 lenses included, so end price will probably not be affected much. Is reasonable to think about purchasing another additional lenses for amateur/semi-pro camera? Though macrophotography seems very interesting to me, for which i would probably need another lenses, but i'm not that far already
Olympus comes with more white-balance features, which seems an interesting feature for me. At this point i should mention, that i'm capable of image editing (photoshop). As none of above doesn't offer white balance override, it seems very important to me to get the accurate (or better: desired) white balance at image capturing. But some of the pics will be edited anyways, so is non-accurate white balance impossible to correct in photoshop?
In some review is said, that DX (@Nikon) lens projects a reduced image circle and is threfore not compatible to full format SLRs. This reduced size is approx (24x16) format. What does this mean in practise versus standard 35 mm. How's with Olympus cams with that?
And lats, but not least : olympus has live preview. How useful is that in practise? I mean - if you're using your camera mostly to do hobby/art pics, you probably use viewfinder instead of LCD. I believe the LCD is useful more for "party" pics where you just make pictures, regardless of the artistic end product... Am i wrong?
What is: Wireless flash control feature at Nikons D40X? Do i gain a lot with bigger models (Nikon D80 instead of D40X; E-510 instead of E-410)? Worth the price? Should I be paying attention to something else? And what's that about Canon EOS 400D dust filter. Can dust be really crucial?
You probably see where this is going: I'd like to make good photos for max. 1000$ (lens included). On dpreview smple images nikon seems better in picure quality than olympus, ant that's really only thing that matters, but olympus has some good arguments on the papers. Should i consider about buying only a box version of DSLR and additional lenses? Which of the stock lenses are above average quality? Is Olympus a decent competitor to Canon and Nikon?
Please help me out
Well, I'll try to be short as possible:
I'm off to buy a new camera, that i'd like to use for a hobby photoing and learning doing amazing pictures. As my knowledege about digital photography is not very good (yet
), of course i'd like some suggestions while i'd point you some directions i have in my mind.Somehow i'm pretty sure that i'd like a DSLR, but after you read the post, feel free to recommend me some other option. An entry-class DSLR, of course.
First of all, as with little photograpic experience I don't know what is the power of image stabilisator in practise. Because I have somehow limited myself to Nikon D40X, D80 and Olympus E-410 and E-510. One does't have it ant the other does. But those Nikons can be purchased with AF-S DX VR (Vibration reduction) lenses, that somehow will probably do the trick...And let me just add, that i really don't have steady hand and don't want to carry around a tripod all the time. Somehow I'd think, that image stabilisation is a must-have, but don't know how's in practise. I could be wrong.
The other ting is about autofocus at Nikons, which is provided only by lenses (AF-S or AF-I). Do you see a big drawback at that? I think i will purchase a box with 2 lenses included, so end price will probably not be affected much. Is reasonable to think about purchasing another additional lenses for amateur/semi-pro camera? Though macrophotography seems very interesting to me, for which i would probably need another lenses, but i'm not that far already
Olympus comes with more white-balance features, which seems an interesting feature for me. At this point i should mention, that i'm capable of image editing (photoshop). As none of above doesn't offer white balance override, it seems very important to me to get the accurate (or better: desired) white balance at image capturing. But some of the pics will be edited anyways, so is non-accurate white balance impossible to correct in photoshop?
In some review is said, that DX (@Nikon) lens projects a reduced image circle and is threfore not compatible to full format SLRs. This reduced size is approx (24x16) format. What does this mean in practise versus standard 35 mm. How's with Olympus cams with that?
And lats, but not least : olympus has live preview. How useful is that in practise? I mean - if you're using your camera mostly to do hobby/art pics, you probably use viewfinder instead of LCD. I believe the LCD is useful more for "party" pics where you just make pictures, regardless of the artistic end product... Am i wrong?
What is: Wireless flash control feature at Nikons D40X? Do i gain a lot with bigger models (Nikon D80 instead of D40X; E-510 instead of E-410)? Worth the price? Should I be paying attention to something else? And what's that about Canon EOS 400D dust filter. Can dust be really crucial?
You probably see where this is going: I'd like to make good photos for max. 1000$ (lens included). On dpreview smple images nikon seems better in picure quality than olympus, ant that's really only thing that matters, but olympus has some good arguments on the papers. Should i consider about buying only a box version of DSLR and additional lenses? Which of the stock lenses are above average quality? Is Olympus a decent competitor to Canon and Nikon?
Please help me out
