A good camera at a reasonable price?
May 12th 2008 00:40
In many ways there is no such thing as a good camera at a reasonable price, at best, you'll get a reasonable camera at a reasonable price. Keep that in mind.
You'll need to spend some quality time with the manual that comes with your camera.
Take your time and get comfortable with the different controls and settings. Many cameras have automatic setting for things like close-ups, action, or night shots. Use them in the beginning but you need to know and understand the manual settings on your camera.
Some things you'll need to know and try, but hey, this is digital, if what you see you do not like just delete them; combinations of different f-stops, ISO's, and shutter speeds, and refer back to the manual often.
You'll need to get to understand lighting, angles, patterns, and perspective which all play a part.
Now, for your choice of camera. I take it by reasonable price you mean $500 or less.
Two camera types spring immediately to mind, Nikon and Canon.
But do remember, you get what you pay for.
Sorry, that image did not come cheap.
That one was not cheap either. It was also a Canon.
Check for face detection and red eye reduction, in the latest cameras. Generally the more recent the product the better the features. They are improving all the time.
Under $500 - Canon PowerShot A620 or the Canon Powershot S2iS.
Not so good, is it?
Taken with a Nikon D50
Another with Nikon D50.
Price of Nikon D50 approximately $600 presumably US $
That's looking pretty good to me.
Nikon Coolpix comes at less than $300 US $ and has a lot to offer, but you won't get the same features as the dearer camera.
With cheaper you'll get less resolution, less capacity to get in very close for macro shots, limited zoom capacity, poorer quality lens, so you'll generally get what you pay for.
I have done quite a few posts of choice of a camera so take a little look around and go thru the index for more, won't you?
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