What would be a good, inexpensive digital camera for a beginer? I want something that could do cool stuff, not just for taking pictures at birthday parties, etc. Would it be a mistake to get a digital camera if I want to take cool pictures? Can you take black and white pictures with one? Please feel free to give me any info you have in detail, but I would appreciate if you had experience.
2006-09-28 09:32:47 · 10 answers · asked by lilith 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
I have about 7 years experience using digital and four cameras since, I think I can give you some good advice. Get one with about 4 or 5 megapixels. Make sure it has a rechargeable battery. Most importantly make sure it has a smart or similar card, minimum 520 m.b. Make sure it has a 'cradle' or 'port' which connects to your computer via usb port. As soon as you put the camera into the cradle, it starts to recharge the battery without taking it out of the camera. You also get a disc which you load up and when you press the relevant button, the photos immediately appear on your computer. You should get a photos toolkit with the camera, such as Photostudio or Ulead. You save the photos from your screen onto your hard drive or delete them. (Make sure you save them as Jpeg format as it saves half the space compared with other formats). They will be in colour but there is a facility on the tools to change them to black and white. Just remembered, make sure the camera has a flash unit fitted. When you have the photo on your hard drive, copy one and put the original back in its file. Play around with the copy and experiment with the different tools. It makes no difference if you mess it up as you can dump it at any time and take another copy. Be careful when printing the photos as the paper, a good quality is expensive as is the ink for your printer. Make sure you don't waste the photo paper. If you try to print onto ordinary paper you will use up ten times as much ink. Have a go, you will love it....................
2006-09-28 09:45:04 · answer #1 · answered by thomasrobinsonantonio 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My experience with film cameras goes back15 years. I’ve used digital cameras ever since it was born. Remember the Casio 1 megapixel camera or that one apple came out with back in the days. I remember when a 1 megapixel camera would cost over $500 dollars. I’ve also worked in several camera stores over the last 10 years, while freelancing. What I would suggest is to borrow a friends digital camera and or better yet buy one form a store that has a 30 day return policy. Play with it and see if you like it or see if you wish that it had more features that you may want to utilize. First things first. Find out what are you planning to do with the pictures once you have taken them. If your going to be doing large prints then opt for at least a 4 to 5 mega pixel camera. This will get you nice prints. But if you just plan on leaving it on the computer then there should be no reason to go over 4 mega pixels. If your looking for a point and shoot digital to take around with you every place. Opt for the Canon A430 inexpensive, built well, and should last a long time. If your looking for a big SLR type camera then you could do well with an Canon Xti. Both cameras are capable of taking B&W (most digital cameras do). Both are very easy to use. You could pick up the point and shoot for about $150 bucks and the SLR for about $700. Look around the web for special deals, and maybe you could find them cheaper.
2006-09-28 17:51:40 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffrey H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Canon powershots are nice, but I like my Sony cybershot. You with both these, you can change to black and white, solarized, etc. for more artsy shots. It is never a mistake to buy a digital camera!! I just bought a 10.2 megapixel Sony because I am a designer, but my little cybershot was so nice I actually took a picture of a ladybug and was able to blow it up in such high quality with my 3.2 megapixel camera.
2006-09-28 16:53:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kodak makes a nice, user friendly digital camera. They have a few models with varying megapixels (the lesser the megapixel number, the less sharp photos will be when blown up) and in varying price ranges. Good luck!
2006-09-28 16:41:27 · answer #4 · answered by sweetnsassy1021 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
CANON Powershot A300 3.2 mega pixels, simple, easy, and does cool stuff like black/white, sepia(which is like a brownish/tan coloring affect, making the picture look antique), and it has lots more neat features. This was my first digital camera and I LOVED it! Great beginner's camera. Takes great pics.
2006-09-28 19:10:45 · answer #5 · answered by JB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can go with a semi cheap Kodak Digital camera. you can take black and white photos and a couple otheres. but you can use any kind of digital camera to take cool photos. it is just a matter of putting the photos into your computer then you can play with the photos to make them exactly how you want them.
2006-09-28 16:37:25 · answer #6 · answered by I might know 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
GO WITH CANON!!!! I've owned several digitals cameras- from basic point and shoot to digital SLR. Canon is the best and easiest to use.
2006-09-28 16:55:04 · answer #7 · answered by MagPookie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-28 17:13:41 · answer #8 · answered by kearneyconsulting 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the cheapest one like one at wal*mart or BEst bUY
2006-09-28 17:01:00 · answer #9 · answered by Zane C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-28 16:41:41 · answer #10 · answered by velveteen222 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋