I want a nice camera. I have the budget for a camera no more than 600 dollars. I want them to look professional. It’s just a hobby of mine and I am just wondering what camera is the best out there, well the best for 600 dollars.
Up your budget to $700, you can buy one of the best entry level cameras at this time.
Look at the Canon T1i (500D) or Nikon D3100
Whether your photos look professional or not is up to you, NOT the camera
im looking for a camera that takes professional pictures.
please give me different price ranges.
im looking for a camera that takes professional studio pictures.
clear pictures, like ad pictures and billboard pictures. very clear
not like regular camera pictures. also, how can i know
if this camera takes these kind of pictures?
i dont want to go buy a camera and return it
after not liking the quality.
For the 1000000000000000000th time.
Cameras don’t take pictures – people do.
Professionals use all sorts of different cameras from mid range Dslrs through to Hasselblads or large format cameras costing many thousands of pounds/dollars.
They get the quality from knowing all about their trade.
Hi, so I know the settings on a digital camera but I want to understand how a digital camera works. So, how do they work? Where can I get more information to understand the mechanics of digital cameras? Thank you.
I assume you want the basics;
Film and digital photography is broadly the same idea to start with;
light ‘rays’ are focused (brought to sharp points) from distant objects, thru the lens, onto a receiving strip, situated close behind the back of the lens, inside the light-tight camera body.
The strip can be a film or a CMOS/CCD chip, which is a glorified transistor that picks up pin pricks of light.
Film is a strip of chemicals, which responds to pin-pricks of light. The film has a coating which receives light and chemically changes – later the chemical baths are used to develop it, to bring out the shades, colours, outlines, etc.
The digital sensor is charged up by the battery and the light is registered (in pin-pricks all over it) and the computer in the camera ‘maps’ all the results as a big file. The more pin-pricks, the better the resolution will be (more tones in the final picture, more colours, sharper more realistic images). Generally, that is, the more mega-pixels (pin pricks) the better though small sensors can have a problem with ‘noise’.
Noise in film is the clouding of chemicals which, in a big enlargement, we see as gritty ‘grain’, if they are severe they can spoil a shot unless it’s one of Robert Capa’s.
Noise in digital world gives unwanted signals (like a mis-tuned radio) which we see as blobs of unreal colours, fuzzy or jagged edges that should be straight, or just (usually blue) grittiness.
So, to the photographer, there is hardly any difference between film and digital capture, other than speed and convenience when related to transmission or storing on a PC or Mac.
Really cheap film and digital cameras (and most phones) have issues with focus accuracy, lens quality, tonal range, all resulting in unreal smudgy unsatisfactory results unless all we want is a tiny web picture on the PC screen.
=Wide open lenses (’f’ numbers under f 2,8) using all of the glass area, very high receptor or film speeds, meaning very sensitive to light (such as equivalent to ISO 800 and above, so we can take pix in very poor lighting), result in more noise, grit (grain) and colour shift problems more or less the same in both film cameras and their digital cousins.
I’ll leave out blur due to slow shutter speeds, dodgy cheap lenses, badly made mass produced cameras that don’t have their lenses accurately in line or at the right distance from the receptor.
Even the lens coatings matter – digital receivers hate internal reflections even more than film, so the glasses have to be multi-coated with layers of exotic materials that are a quarter of the light wave-length in thickness; we are talking very expensive nano-thickness vacuum coating technologies here.
Enough of that, the camera manufacturer does all that design for you, and puts it into mass production.
Now here’s the rub; film or digital, the guy who makes a modern computation/design and production that gives pix that look like hi-fi has to charge you. Currently, any new camera and lens less than say £500 (UK) will not be able to give pix that can satisfactorily be printed out at A4 and above, unless you don’t care about quality. That last phrase is critical!
If you want to be published in Life, Time, Vogue then start your kit at the £ 25,000 level upwards. The work involved in making this stuff is fantastic.
Back in the real world;
Most amateurs want reasonable results where the picture quality doesn’t ruin the enjoyment of the picture; that can be done either film or digital for the £500 I mentioned.
Second Hand.
There are now many pro kits for film at knock down prices which will yield tops results and because they were highly priced pro cameras originally, will now stand amateur use with ease, maybe after a service.
With digital cameras, we’re faced with second hand being even better value (BIG depreciations) but as the inventions have moved so quickly, we will always get ’second best’ if we go that route; a Canon 5D was a superb machine with ‘L’ lenses on it, but the processor inside (the computer) was limited; the latest one is miles better but of course is still full list price.
Food for thought, as in all Life, you have to find the most convenient cost-effective compromise. Suggest you look at established top photographers exhibitions and really look at the picture quality, decide where your quality tolerance level is with respect to their masterpieces, and consider your purchases accordingly.
Do not, however, get hung up with techno kit thrombosis
Hi, everyone. I want to know what a digital camera is compared to a film camera. What exactly are digital cameras, and what are film cameras?
Thanks!
film cameras use film, most commonly 35mm film
digital cameras use sensors to create a picture
this really shouldn’t be hard to figure out on your own
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_camera
I have a Canon PowerShot SD 1300 IS and the lens on the camera will not come out. I turn it on, and it says "Lens Error Camera will now restart" The camera lens is not out of the camera like its ready to take a picture. Help?
Lens errors are fairly common. Usually it’s sand or grit interfering with the lens extension mechanism. Or the camera’s been dropped with the lens extended. Or the camera has been powered on, but the lens had been blocked preventing its extension. Or the battery ran down with the lens extended …
Here are some troubleshooting steps that you can try that may (or may not) correct it. They only seem to work for less than 40% of the lens errors, but if the camera is out of warranty (or repair cost approaches that of the camera), they’re worth that try. Some of the later steps do involve some risk to the camera, so carefully weigh your options before deciding to conduct them:
http://camerarepair.blogspot.com/2007/12/fixing-lens-error-on-digital-camera.html
One of them is called: Sony film camera attachment VCR 16C
and a lens that is a Kowa prominar anamorphic 16-h 58141
How much are these worth?
are they anything of interest or are they just some lenses ?
$25 at most. These are film or video camera ttachments, little value in those
I know this is an odd question. However I have an idea for a website and/or separate business. Both options I have in mind would require 4 to 8 cameras. So I need a nice camera that will give a semi professional look but don’t want to spend $100,000 dollars on cameras. Is there a good camera anyone can recommend that will be sufficient and affordable. A few options would be nice as I would hope to upgrade later as time and money got better.
The best camera to use is the one currently set up in your parents room.
Every year for Christmas I ask for a camera. Every year, I’ve gotten an old hand-me-down digital camera. I’ve always hated the way the pictures look.
I am completely clueless on what kind of camera to buy. I know I want something that will take a higher quality photo, I’ve been looking into the Canon 400D SLR.
I’m looking for something in the 400-500 dollar range.
Can someone please suggest a good semi-professional camera for someone who is tired of cheap recycled digital cameras? 
Thank you!
I think you should go with Canon EOS Rebel T1i 15.1 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera
* New 15.1-megapixel CMOS sensor with DIGIC 4 Image Processor
* Full HD video capture at 1920 x 1080 resolution; HDMI output
* 3.0-inch Clear View LCD; Live View Function for stills and video
* Capture images and video to SD/SDHC memory cards
In your opinion, of course. I’m looking into getting a camera and this is one of the first steps I’m taking. Which camera company (that sells digital cameras) do you think provides the best quality and cutting edge technology cameras? Price is no issue. I want the Bose of cameras.
I would prefer to go with Canon for Point and shoot cameras
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For DSLR I prefer Nikon
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I plan on getting an ultra flip video camera to post funny videos and a bunch of other stuff on youtube as a hobby. Does the ultra HD flip video camera work with windows LIVE movie maker? I would prefer to use this editing software because it’s completely free. If it doesn’t work, can you recommend an easy and free video editing software that works with the ultra HD flip video camera? Thank you if you answered this question.
No, the video file out of flip ultra camera cannot be read by windows live movie maker directly. So you may try to change the file extension to wmv, avi, mpg with a professional flip converting program. Recommend you one I am using. Hope it helps u.
http://www.flip-convert.com/