Comments on: DSLR decisions

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Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:16:14 +0000

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by: ambergler

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:22:38 +0000

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by: zoesanders

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:42:19 +0000

Capturing great photos like flower pictures and love pictures can be both easy for those who have natural talent and hard for those who does not. There are lots of beautiful places at province Quebec. Canon is a good camera.

by: rndmnmbr

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:45:18 +0100

It's funny looking back on my comments from the future.

I did get the 20D, and the kit lens, and the 50mm f/1.8. And then a 70-300 f/4-5.6 IS USM. And then a 70-200mm f/4 L, and a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8, and a 50mm f/1.4, and and 85 f/1.8, and a 28 f/2.8 and then a real photographer told me every photo I had ever taken looked like complete shit.

Then I paid for a college class on composition, and another on basic B&W photography, and a couple of lynda.com video sets on Photoshop, and a couple of books on lighting, and I's all Zen now: I can make cell phones turn out decent photos. Perhaps one day I might aspire to "good" photos.

So there's my advice from the future: if you're asking what camera and lenses you need to buy, find out what the minimum camera is for your remedial B&W photography and artistic composition classes, and buy that. You're wasting money if you put the camera before the skills to use it.

by: davomate

Fri, 07 May 2010 16:37:20 +0100

Whoops, I meant phone cameras in general. I couple of the sony phones with sticky-out-lenses are similar to compact quality.

by: davomate

Fri, 07 May 2010 16:26:38 +0100

I learnt on film SLRs starting about 30 years ago and carried a bag of lenses around Europe because zooms were pretty limited then. My first DSLR was a Canon 300D. When it broke I replaced it with 450D. Aside from the move to digital the biggest improvement in indoor photos has come with an external bounce flash (430EX). No more deer-in-the-headlights photos of people with the shadows in their features washed out. Any cameras with built-in flashes are guilty of this.
Now I have got picky about image quality and started to add more expensive lenses ... 15-85 f3.5-5.6 IS and 70-200 f4 IS. My bag is heavy once again but the sharpness on some of the photos really pop. Next will be a 60mm f2.8 macro which will allow me to explore macro photography and double as a faster indoor lens (the 50mm 1.4 and 1.8 are soft up to 2.8, so I would rather start sharp to the edges).
My wife has carried around an IXUS in her handbag for several years and has taken some great candid photos. Low-light is a weakness as is the slow focus when shooting moving subjects such as children. However it is great to have a camera with you all the time, when you are not carrying a camera bag. And the quality is still far better than camera phones.

by: hitmouse

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:04:55 +0100

@Marcus. Very true. Last year I won a prize in a national photography contest for a series of photos taken on a Sony Cybershot and a Canon G7, where all other entries were on DSLRs.

by: Marcus

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:01:48 +0100

One vote for the cheap body, expensive glass here. I have an ancient Canon 350D ($800 when new, now probably ~$200) and a 24mm f1.4 L lens (~$1800) that is my standard digital camera.

Also, the durability of a camera is the most important factor for me. The 350D and the L lens have survived numerous storms, 2 drops off my shoulder onto concrete, getting hit with a stick during the wash from a helicopter takeoff (saved my face from an ugly scar!), and being thrown into my bag every day for 4 or 5 years now.

And on another topic, people who believe the only serious camera is a DSLR have no idea about artistic photography. I have taken my favourite photos with an Olympus XA-2 (a tiny, zone-focus compact camera from the early '80s). Due to it's size and simple controls it is totally superior to my 350D in many situations.

by: Itsacon

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:56:07 +0000

@rndmnmbr: The 1000D is a lower-tier product than your 300D, so you might actually miss features (then again, you might not). The 20D is still a very good camera. Personally, I'd go for the 20D, or scrounge up a second hand 400D (last camera in the XX0D series to use CF cards like your 300D, and easily available for that $300).

by: TwoHedWlf

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:42:45 +0000

Bugger, no CHDK for me.:(