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| Thread ID: 115142 | 2011-01-04 09:33:00 | Digital SLR camera recommendations | globe (11482) | PC World Chat |
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| 1167012 | 2011-01-05 07:29:00 | If you want a decent zoom etc ... you mgiht want a pocket cam. Or equally a slr. I don't know about pocket cams much - just my note about the night time focus issue. An SLR focus is bang on and less noisy (grainy). But then again if you want a decent zoom, a slr might get handshake blur, you can get a 18-200mm lens, or a 28-300mm lens times 1.5 on Nikon or 1.6 on Canon unless you get the pro models which is 1:1. A lens so versatile like that is like f/4.5-6.3 maybe, hence many slr people have a 50mm f/1.8 or they get the $4k pro zooms which is fixed at f/2.8 but you can go higher # if you want like f/8 or whatever.... wut? |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 1167013 | 2011-01-05 07:47:00 | About 12 months ago I bought an Olympus e-620 (touted as a small dslr), mainly because I wanted to, I guess, increase my knowledge of photography etc.etc.:confused:. I quite like it and it's not too much to carry around. I think the beauty of an slr,is the larger sensor, in certain conditions this enables great photos to be taken. Top end compacts I think are pretty good, if they don't try to cram too many pixels onto a small sensor and in this respect the Canon G11 would be good. I don't know, what you like, I suppose. As someone has already said, dpreview, is a good start for research on, to me, quite a fascinating subject. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 1167014 | 2011-01-05 08:13:00 | wut? The OP said he wanted a decent zoom. I'll explain. :D Some pocket cams like the ones a few have advised are great because it is f/2.0 or something like that which is great, it let's you have a faster shutter speed, less handshake blur when it is dark. If you want a decent zoom on a SLR camera they are much slower like f/4.5 - 6.3. A friend has a Tamron lens on his Canon and it's a 28-300mm. When you are at 28mm you can have the lowest number at f/4.5 maybe and when you approach 300mm, you can only use f/6.3. That is heaps slower than f/2.8 on some of the pocket cams. Generally speaking if you want a decent speed to avoid handshake blur you may want 1/60 speed, let's say it is dark and you get that on the pocket cam. If you wanna use f/4.5 on the SLR you only get 1/7. One reason why some SLRs users buy a 50mm f/1.8 is b/c they are much faster. That would give you maybe 1/80 or if you had the f/1.4 version lens 1/120. SLRs are great that you can swap lenses, you might want std kit lens but when it goes day you might want a 35mm or a 50mm f/1.8 or a f/1.4 non-zoom lens. On top of that SLRs are less grainy, you can pop up the ISO to maybe ISO 3200 and it is still pretty okay. That 1.5x or 1.6x thing. Only the more $$ cams have a full frame sensor that is the size as 35mm film. If you have the $$ ones, a 35mm lens on film will look like 35mm on digital. If you don't, the sensor is smaller so the sides get cut off showing a less wide picture. If you have a Nikon it is 1.5x. So a 35mm lens looks more like a 50mm, not the same but you get the idea. It still looks like a 35mm but the top, bottom, left and right is cut off resembling a less wide picture. Which some say, if you are into sports or wildlife, you may like those cameras, like a cheaper one or a mid one, like a Canon 7D or a Nikon D300. If you have a 300mm, it's not but people refer it to a 450mm reach lens. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1167015 | 2011-01-05 08:51:00 | I had to read that 4x to make any sense of it! But, thanks for explaining. | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 1167016 | 2011-01-05 17:47:00 | Back in my semi-pro (35mm film) days we used to regard shutter speed should be at least lens length for hand held shots . For example, a 50mm lens shold be at least 1/60th sec - or a 500mm at 1/500th sec . That was with 100ASA film . My favourite lenses were 24mm, 50mm, 75mm, and 180mm . I had zoom lenses but wasn't keen on using them . My, how things have changed with digital cameras . Ken ;) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1167017 | 2011-01-05 18:03:00 | I have one of these, SLR type without being SLR......... goo.gl Does all I want. |
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