I’ve always loved taken pictures with my regular digital camera, but now I want to learn how to take somewhat professional pictures with a somewhat professional digital camera. I want something that isn’t extremely expensive and that I can learn without too much difficulty. Any recommendations?
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The Kodak EasyShare M853 combines an eight megapixel CCD imager and a Kodak-branded 3x optical zoom lens with a fairly standard 37 – 111mm equivalent focal range. For framing images, there’s a 2.5″ 154K pixel LCD display but like many current models, the M853 has no optical viewfinder. Images are stored on Secure Digital / MultiMediaCards, or in 16MB of internal memory.
The Kodak M853 has 17 scene modes to help beginners achieve the results they’re looking for without the need to understand subtleties like shutter speeds, apertures and the like. Scene modes provided are: portrait, sports, landscape, children, night portrait, beach, snow, fireworks, self portrait, backlight, night landscape, text/document, manner/museum, flower, sunset, panorama, and candlelight. Additional shooting modes include auto, video, Favorites, digital IS, high ISO, and close-up.
The M853 determines exposures with a center-weighted TTL metering system, and offers 2.0EV of exposure compensation in 1/3EV increments. Five white balance settings are available including an auto mode, and ISO sensitivity is controlled automatically ranging from 80 to 800, or manually up to 1,250. The EasyShare M853 also offers a movie mode, capturing VGA (640×480) clips at 15 fps, or QVGA (320×240) clips at 30 fps, both with audio. Movies are encoded in QuickTime MPEG4 format.
Images and movies captured on the Kodak M853 are transferred to your computer over a USB 2.0 Full Speed connection. Power comes from a custom KLIC-7001 Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery, and features in-camera charging via USB cable.
The Kodak EasyShare M853 ships August 2007 at a suggested list price of US$179, and is available in white, red, graphite, silver and espresso.
You can find some really good inexpensive cameras at http://www.circuitcity.com.I suggest getting a casio camera.I have one from circuit city and it is awesome.I definely suggest getting it for photography.I bought mine for $200.00 dollors.Trust me you won’t be dissapointed.Good luck with photography.
Forget digital if you really want to learn anything about photography. Go find an old film SLR and play with that for a while. You can get a great SLR for under $75 and film is cheap. You can get your film put on a cd for next to nothing if you do several rolls at a time.
The reason I suggest a film camera is because people (myself included) tend to get a little snap happy with digital. They never really stop to think about what it is that they are doing. Film, especially on cameras that are completely manual, makes you slow down and think about your settings and how to manipulate them to get the image that you want. With digital, you tend to take 300 photos and none are any good because you don’t understand exactly what you’re doing. When you do get a good photo, you took so many photos that you don’t remember what you did to get those results. Film forces you to have at least a minor grasp on everything. Once you truly understand how to make the camera work for you, then you can move up to digital and have some hope of taking professional photos.
The Kodak Easyshare Z740. You also get the printer with it. So you can print whatever pictures you take.
The camera is “only” one tool in your arsenal of creativity — like a hammer. If you purchased a very expensive hammer would that make you a more professional carpenter? Learn to see things with your eyes and mind then record your vision with the camera — any camera will do. Last, take a workshop with a professional photographer and also learn Photoshop. Photoshop is your new digital age darkroom only better then the old film darkroom.
Your first choice should be a digital slr. If not, a camera that has manual controls.
The canon rebel digital is good, thats what I use. If you don’t want to spend that much get a point and shoot that has the option to go manual and/or shutter priority and Aperature priority.
Pentax K100D Super should be good. It’s an entry-level camera.
The Nov issues of 2 magazines, What Digital Camera and Popular Photography, talk about it. You can read them and get some comments first. The magazines can be downloaded here:http://abbooka.blogspot.com
You’ll want to get a DSLR…they’re expensive, but if your goal is to take professional pictures, this is the route you will want to take. You will then be able to play with the lighting and shutter speeds which you can’t do with point and shoot. Go on line and do some research…also go to a camera store to see what they recomend…then you can go to a Best Buy, Wal-mart or Circuit City to buy it.