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What kind of digital camera do you have?
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weaselboogie
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Good question. I dont' want to thread pirate, and I hope I add to this, but what high end cameras do people use... Thinking SLR digital...? Does anyone take their own pictures to use for finished work? I've been looking into this myself.
rockongraphix
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i have the cannon powershot a550 7.1mp cost me $200 ,and picked up a 2gig card for it for $15 about a year ago, takes about 700 pics at highest setting and up over 10000 at lowest 640x480 , good zoom took some great photos at 100+ feet away and still see the features of a persons face , and also records movies , i find the picture are very sharp , untill night shots but works great.
i have used a nikon d100 since they came out and with a decent bit of glass in front of it cant really fault it,
saved in raw then in to PS to anything you want, i have done several 8ft x 4 ft fine.
these are now available on the s/h market for not a lot of money could be worth a look.
woolly
saved in raw then in to PS to anything you want, i have done several 8ft x 4 ft fine.
these are now available on the s/h market for not a lot of money could be worth a look.
woolly
Lunatic Taskbar
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I use a Nikon D40x with a 4gb highspeed card.
Flame
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Canon Rebel digital. 8mp, never tried shooting in RAW but believe it has that option. Never saw a use for it though.
Runs about $700 with a 55mm lense, but it takes really nice pictures even in auto mode. So a beginner can learn to use it, or you can set everything manual, and use it as a true photographers level DSLR.
One of the best bangs for your buck IMO. Great little camera, just a touch out of your budget. But I'd suggest going ahead and spending the extra money.... it's worth it.
Runs about $700 with a 55mm lense, but it takes really nice pictures even in auto mode. So a beginner can learn to use it, or you can set everything manual, and use it as a true photographers level DSLR.
One of the best bangs for your buck IMO. Great little camera, just a touch out of your budget. But I'd suggest going ahead and spending the extra money.... it's worth it.
Bogie
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If you can, shoot raw, as high a resolution as you can.
Personally, if people ask my advice, I tell them to buy a camera that's made by a -camera- company, not a general electronics company. Reason being is that the lens, etc., are likely to work a LOT better.
Canons also generally have fairly fast "trigger" time, even with the pocket cameras. I use a 570 now for a lot of stuff, and it works just fine. In a previous "life," I used a Nikon D100 and D70 a lot. Both were good cameras.
Several things can be your friend: Get a tripod. Helps to have things steady. If it'll take an external flash, spend the cash, and get one with a movable turnable head. You're painting with light here. You need light.
Personally, if people ask my advice, I tell them to buy a camera that's made by a -camera- company, not a general electronics company. Reason being is that the lens, etc., are likely to work a LOT better.
Canons also generally have fairly fast "trigger" time, even with the pocket cameras. I use a 570 now for a lot of stuff, and it works just fine. In a previous "life," I used a Nikon D100 and D70 a lot. Both were good cameras.
Several things can be your friend: Get a tripod. Helps to have things steady. If it'll take an external flash, spend the cash, and get one with a movable turnable head. You're painting with light here. You need light.
Williams Signs
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Olympus sp-500uz 6mp great camera and it does raw
RobGF
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Ian, I use the d40x as well. You wouldn't happen to be in Parrsboro, would you?
Rob
Raulrdz
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I have always been a Canon person, I love the EOS family, but I picked up an Olympus Evolt 300 at a real good price. Haven't been disappointed yet. 8mp, raw and tiff. Has an ultrasonic wave cmos cleaner (no dust specs) and compared to my friend's Rebel the pictures are a lot more sharp and colors are closer to the real thing.
signmeup
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My back-up camera is a 4 mega pixel fuji S5100. Lovely little camera. I does do RAW files. Huge zoom range. Nicer build quality than my Canon Rebel XT. It's few years old but it has a standard image chip in it, not a Fuji Super CCD chip. This is a good thing. If you dig around Ebay you can probably find a NOS one for a $100 or so. The Canon has the best image quality though. NOS Rebel XTs are going for about 400 bucks. An 8 megapixel image is huge. 10 megapixel is only slightly larger.
Oh...like Bogie said ...shoot RAW and convert to whatever. Gives you a chance to salvage under or over exposed images and you can correst some pretty weird color cast problems. The Canon software works pretty well. If you go with a Fugi there is a free RAW converter called S7RAW that works well. The Fuji software will only convert the RAW file to a Tiff.
Adrian
Oh...like Bogie said ...shoot RAW and convert to whatever. Gives you a chance to salvage under or over exposed images and you can correst some pretty weird color cast problems. The Canon software works pretty well. If you go with a Fugi there is a free RAW converter called S7RAW that works well. The Fuji software will only convert the RAW file to a Tiff.
Adrian
