What kind of camera is the best for a photographer to buy and what attachments?
sweetbrunnette9109 asked:
I’m looking in to buying a camera but I need to know what the best ones are
I’m looking in to buying a camera but I need to know what the best ones are
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Best is really a personal decision. If you are a casual photographer and want to take photos of vacations, family, and friends that you can share on the Internet or put in albums the answer is one thing. If you are an experienced photographer that wants to go all out on quality images of people, action sports, and exotic vacations that you can enlarge to poster size, submit to contests, or wow others with then the answer is different.
For the casual photographer there are a lot of point and shoot
cameras that are compact, have good resolution, and will give you years of enjoyment at prices ranging from below $100 (if you get them as factory-refurbished) to a few hundred. You would not have as much artistic control over the speed and depth of field and would not catch high speed action.
For the experienced person who wants to get a top of the line photographic setup there are Digital SLR (DSLR) cameras that can swap in a lot of alternative lenses, adjust the image areas in/out of focus, and capture more pixels per inch than your eyes could distinguish. Great cameras like Nikon and Canon work with their wide variety of lenses, flash, filters and let you choose the effective film speed, the resolution in each photo, do selectable auto focus, and give you a great starting point for touching up using photo processing programs like PhotoShop. Their price tags usually start at about $1000 and go up from there.
So somewhere between those extremes someone is selling the camera that suits you and the way you want to do photography. Rich Z
That is a wide open question:
The “best” Film cameras would be the Mamiya RZ67 or Nikon F5
The “best” affordable Digital cameras would be the Nikon D3 or Canon EOS-1 Mark III ds Mere_Mortal
Buying a camera and the attachments are a personal thing. It is like buying a tie. What you buy depends on what you are going to shoot with it, how close or how far away you are going to be, what type of photography are you going to shoot, for example are you going to do portraits, scenic, wildlife, buildings, etc. Rent different types of cameras and lenses and see which ones fit your needs best and go from there. Isaac O
A body and some lenses. DSLR a Leica would be best. Or a Linhof they are cool. Lazarus
We use the Canon Rebel XTi at the Art Institute. It is a pretty nice camera, and is reasonably priced… the price has dropped a lot since the newer version (the XSi) will be coming out soon. I’ve had mine for about 2 years now, and I am still very happy with it.
I would start out by just buying the camera, then slowly buy new lenses later on. I now have a macro and telephoto lens. Do get a tri-pod as well.
Best of luck! Miss. Photo