Recommend a good digital camera to me!

last SG · 2008-11-29T15:14:05+00:00

Yeah, Canon's DPP makes changing white balance ridiculously easy.

Gedanken SG

seems like a step backwards.

but i'll be using this camera at ISO200 and below, i just want the extra megapixels.

then again he said the firmware pushes it back down to 12.

"Do you really want to pay a $3,800 premium over the D3 for a mere 42% improvement in linear resolution? Why not buy a D3 for speed and low light, and buy a Canon 5D Mark II for high-resolution full-frame shots for $2,700, and pocket the leftover $1,100 to go party? Very, very few photographers know what they're doing well enough to get this sort of sharpness at the sensor, so for most guys, D3X images will look the same (or worse) than D3 images."

ok so its either a D3Xs, D4... or i just get bloody batter grip for my D300 because i prefer using a battery grip for portrait shots

Get the D3 lah - FX is better than DX for portraits.

As a Canon shooter, if was going to get serious about portrait shooting, I'd be getting the 5D or 5D2 instead of trying to get an APS-C body to try and do the job.

kopiosatu SG

Get the D3 lah - FX is better than DX for portraits.

As a Canon shooter, if was going to get serious about portrait shooting, I'd be getting the 5D or 5D2 instead of trying to get an APS-C body to try and do the job.

the money spent for the same amount of megapixels is like... not worth it.

its not like as if nikon has a camera that matches the 1Ds Mark 3.

i'll stick with the d300 untill nikon comes up with a better body.

for now i'm happy with the results of the d300... except that it doesn't have a damn battery grip.

storywolf SG

Good as it G10 is, it's still no match for even my 400D, much less any of the newer DSLR models. The G10 starts to show noise at ISO200 while I can still take decent shots with the 400D at ISO800. For fast shootng, I already find the 400D's three frames per second limiting (I'd love the 50D's 6.3 fps), and the G10's 0.7 really wouldn't be usable to me at all for that purpose.

The G10's a nice little "carry everywhere" pocket camera that will happily do the job as a backup camera, andone of its oft-quoted virtues is that it's unobtrusive. Since I already have the 400D and I'm not bothered about being unobtrusive, getting lenses was the more sensible choice.

For me G10 is the choice, it can take photo like SLR, but without all the damn lenses and weight. When travel photography is the thing you want ... compact and less weight is the thing.

Devil1976 SG

for me, i'll be ok with a G10

though i'm aiming the Ricoh GX200 because it gives good colour, can focus fast enough for a compact, its well designed, can shoot RAW. but its a daytime camera, any shots at night or requires flash will fail miserably. firstly because it get noisy at midrange ISO and the flash sucks. but depending on how you use it, you might achieve something nice with the noise at night, like those japanese photographers who use this camera.

i'm still considering purchasing this camera because of its results during the day. because i don't take my camera out at night!

but be reminded that the cameras that i've mentioned are around the $700-800 range

Ok.. Thanks... But I'm more like a day & night person... I suppose I'm more into something which can enable me to take anything with a reasonable and decent speed..

I think I'll just pass on trying to get good night photos out of GX200 as I don't really know much about photography... Though there was a point where I was quite truly tempted to pick up much more, but still.... Mainly time constraints.....

Devil1976 SG

For me G10 is the choice, it can take photo like SLR, but without all the damn lenses and weight. When travel photography is the thing you want ... compact and less weight is the thing.

You're making me fall in love with G10 already!

Devil1976 SG

someone said before that the best zoom is to take a step forward.

it really isn't the equipment sometimes.

the same wide angle lens at different heights will give you different a "feel" each time.

take one standing up, chest level, hip level and from the floor with the same lens, it all looks different.

if the flash is too bright, step back, zoom in to crop the photo.

its that simple

Hey, I TOTALLY AGREE with the HEIGHT THINGY!!! Sometimes it's just about HOW BAD you want that picture captured in the STYLE YA WANT!!

Gedanken SG

it can take photo like SLR

No it can't, but it's a nice little bit of kit anyway.

Gedanken SG

the money spent for the same amount of megapixels is like... not worth it.

its not like as if nikon has a camera that matches the 1Ds Mark 3.

i'll stick with the d300 untill nikon comes up with a better body.

for now i'm happy with the results of the d300... except that it doesn't have a damn battery grip.

Fair nuff - definitely get the grip. Once I put the grip on my 400D, it never came off - damn handy and improves the balance of the camera when you've got a large lens.

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