Beginners Cameras
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hi carlos, how are you mate?
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Not so good mate.
Oh no mate, what's wrong?
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Benteke mate
carlos21
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Been sick
Forgot our camera when we went on holiday years ago, so took our snaps with our sons 'Hulk Hogan' camera, when we had them developed, there was an image of Hulk Hogan in every one. Oh how we laughed.
If you are starting out, it's probably relatively immateriel what kind of basic camera you have compared to the concepts of composition, light and how a camera functions.
Get a decent but basic camera and pick up a used copy of this (GOT Amazon link) Mountain Light by Galen Rowell
if you are interested in the outdoors and scenery (or get your local library to order it). He takes about 100 of his photos and beside the images talks about them individually: why he took them, how he took them, the influence of light and composition, and the equipment and settings that he used.
The cameras he used to take the images would be considered primitive (but classic) these days - mostly Nikon F4 and F100. It is not stuffy theory (although he does talk about his ideas regarding composition and light at more length in some written chapters) but practical advice from one of the top mountain landscape photographers in his day, which should be of great use and interest to anyone looking to get into that kind of photography.
Get a decent but basic camera and pick up a used copy of this (GOT Amazon link) Mountain Light by Galen Rowell
if you are interested in the outdoors and scenery (or get your local library to order it). He takes about 100 of his photos and beside the images talks about them individually: why he took them, how he took them, the influence of light and composition, and the equipment and settings that he used.
The cameras he used to take the images would be considered primitive (but classic) these days - mostly Nikon F4 and F100. It is not stuffy theory (although he does talk about his ideas regarding composition and light at more length in some written chapters) but practical advice from one of the top mountain landscape photographers in his day, which should be of great use and interest to anyone looking to get into that kind of photography.
Just to go Nerdy for a moment (sic) and consider the insides of the camera ranges.
A compact camera has a very small sensor in it (the thing were the light reaches to record the image it sees). An entry level dSLR has a much larger sensor (and full frame one has a very large one).
The difference between compact and dSLR sensors govern the quality of the photo, especially at larger sizes (in particular for printing).
If you are hoping to print off some larger photos then the compact will give much poorer ones because the small sensor is not as capable of retaining and reproducing detail. However if you are likely to only ever get the photos printed at 6x4, 7x5, or maybe 9x6 sizes from Boots or Jessops, then a compact will in most instances be fine.
If however, you fancy putting your masterpieces on the wall, then dSLR (even entry level ones) will allow you to print A3 or even bigger and will also let you get made some rather large canvas prints too.
A compact has it lens built in and the lens is maybe going to be a large as a 2p coin at its widest aperture (aperture is the part that opens up to let light into the camera).
A dSLR lens will be far far larger and this bigger glass element will also be a higher quality in most instances. This larger lens combined with the larger sensor is what gives you more quality combined.
That said, an expensive compact will give you very good results, but it limits your creativity, using in-built creative modes to let the camera do what it thinks is right, whereas with a dSLR and a range of lenses means that you can be in full control of what you want to get out of your photography.
Don't get fooled by 60x zoom on a compact - when a small lens does that, it will perform less well than you would expect.
If you want a second hand dSLR and lens, look here:
https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equipment/used-photo-and-video/used-digital-slr-cameras/
https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equipment/used-photo-and-video/used-lenses/
Bilbo.
A compact camera has a very small sensor in it (the thing were the light reaches to record the image it sees). An entry level dSLR has a much larger sensor (and full frame one has a very large one).
The difference between compact and dSLR sensors govern the quality of the photo, especially at larger sizes (in particular for printing).
If you are hoping to print off some larger photos then the compact will give much poorer ones because the small sensor is not as capable of retaining and reproducing detail. However if you are likely to only ever get the photos printed at 6x4, 7x5, or maybe 9x6 sizes from Boots or Jessops, then a compact will in most instances be fine.
If however, you fancy putting your masterpieces on the wall, then dSLR (even entry level ones) will allow you to print A3 or even bigger and will also let you get made some rather large canvas prints too.
A compact has it lens built in and the lens is maybe going to be a large as a 2p coin at its widest aperture (aperture is the part that opens up to let light into the camera).
A dSLR lens will be far far larger and this bigger glass element will also be a higher quality in most instances. This larger lens combined with the larger sensor is what gives you more quality combined.
That said, an expensive compact will give you very good results, but it limits your creativity, using in-built creative modes to let the camera do what it thinks is right, whereas with a dSLR and a range of lenses means that you can be in full control of what you want to get out of your photography.
Don't get fooled by 60x zoom on a compact - when a small lens does that, it will perform less well than you would expect.
If you want a second hand dSLR and lens, look here:
https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equipment/used-photo-and-video/used-digital-slr-cameras/
https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equipment/used-photo-and-video/used-lenses/
Bilbo.
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Managed to get a second hand canon sx500 power shot for 100, not sure if its a great deal or not but the reviews online of the camera seemed really good
i see what you did there
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