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In Reply to: Digital camera sugestions...and how to properly photoshoot your system ? posted by AdamC on June 28, 2004 at 13:28:03:
Depends on how much money you're willing to spend, but I've been through a lot of small digital point-and-shoot-type cameras and not been overly happy.The new digital SLRs have the feel of real SLRs, and have great expandability. The Rebel Digital is a great camera.
Doug Schneider
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Nikon's new SLR, the D70 is getting all the ga-ga from the current issues of the digital camera mags. They seem to like it better then the Rebel. Infact 'What Digital Camera' made a comparison with the very expensive Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC1 (Leica Digilux-2) and the Olympus Camedia C-8080 Wide Angle. They liked the Nikon the best, with the Lumix LC1 falling into second place.
The dpreview concludes their review with 'Highly Recommended'.
I have an older Nikon (Coolpix 880) and the bigist frustration is trying to tell when it took the bloody picture. With my old Cannon AE1 and A1 you hit the shutter release and it went click and you new you were done. Are the newer SLR type cameras more like the older film versions in this respect?
Bingo -- fighting with shutter release, awkward focussing, poor metering capabilities, etc., is why I stick to the SLRs.One *can* get very reasonable results out of a point and shoot, but the new SLRs are so much better (still not perfect, but significantly better).
Doug
I agree with Doug Schneider (Hi, Doug!) that the Digital Rebel is an excellent camera, but I think that if you're not heavily into photography you might well be satisfied with a good point-and-shoot. My photos that were used by Stereophile as part of the magazine's coverage of the HE-2003 and 2004 CES shows were taken with the Canon S400. (The photos that accompany my show report on the Montreal Festival Son & Image in the July issue were taken with the Digital Rebel.)Bob
If all you're really interested in doing is shooting pictures for posting on a website or email, then I would agree with others that about any relatively inexpensive "point & shoot" digicam currently available will get the job done. However if you're like a lot of us, you will become addicted to digital photography, and will want a higher quality camera. You will then start wondering about the high-rez $1000 (or over) type cameras (I know this may not be in your cards yet...but hear me out). You will learn that there are at least 5 different 8 megapixel digicams capable of taking very good pictures -- still basically P&S but offer amenities that "pretend" to make them look like SLRs. However for that money, there are two excellent "entry level" digital SLRs that most serious photographers would say beat the high megapixel digicams hands-down. They are the Canon Rebel and the new Nikon D70 -- both have received excellent reviews. Having recently bought one of the 8 megapixel digicams, and quickly discovering its shortcomings (high noise, etc), I'm leaning toward selling that camera and moving to an SLR (probably the Nikon D70). Sort of a long-winded comment but I've been the P&S digicam route & unless you have absolutely no real interest in photography, you WILL eventually want to consider a digital SLR.
and that is its use of a "porro" mirror viewing system instead of a glass pentaprism, as is used in the D100. Have a look; you'll find with the D70 that the image appears to be down a tube, whereas with the D100 it's right there. The D100 is heavier, and $500 more expensive, but you may find that it's worth the extra money....
I will have to take a look. Not sure if this "porro" viewfinder would bother me or not. Likely not. I also think the D100 is faster but I could be wrong here.The extra weight of the D100 really doesn't bother me because the D70 is not exactly light. $500?? Well that may have some say in this. Hard to say at this point.
Being somewhat of a purist, maybe I went a little too far calling it a "major" shortcoming. There's no doubt that both the D70 and D100 are excellent cameras, it's just that, for day-in day-out use, I'd be willing to pay the extra for the D100 (and am seriously considering making the plunge). But that's just me, and is based on decades of using Nikon F2's with glass prisms.
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