35mm vs digital?

Question

is a digital better than a 35mm?

and is there a camera out there that takes professional quality pics like the 35 mm but has an easyview screen like a digital camera?

Answer 1

The Olympus E330 has live preview. At present it is the only DSLR that does so. Better than 35mm is unanswerable at this point. If you have enough money for a full sensor camera like the Canon 5D, then yes.

Answer 2

What do you mean by better?

Different people like different things.

I love my K-1000, but a lot of my friends would hate to have one. They would think it's a total pain in the neck.

However, I can play with it to come up with pictures that they never can with their digital cameras.

Of course it depends on the digital camera though. You can get some very nice manipulatable ones, but you have to fork out the required money for them.

Anyway, if you really want to get pro, you'd probably want to go beyond 35mm anyway, to some of the larger format cameras. These too have their digital counterparts.

I don't know what's so hard about looking through a viewfinder. Some of the larger format cameras have screens even bigger than what's on your typical digicam.

Answer 3

You sound like you are just about to enter the world of photography. Once you have a decent printer and learn how to use some image editting software, you will find you can produce prints as nice as those you do in the darkroom. Once you get over the hump of the initial investment, you will also realize that you're done spending money. No more film, chemicals or processing fees. You are able to take all the pictures you want FOR FREE and this is the right way to learn photography.

There are many cameras out there suitable for your purposes, but the budget may kill you. I agree with kehkohjones in recommending the D80 as the best near-film-yet-still-affordable camera out there.

Answer 4

I went from 35mm to digital, and I'll never go back. Digital SLRs dont have a screen where you preview the picture though. Those screens have a delay, and that sucks for serious photography so they dont use them for SLRs. (SLRs have screen where you can view what you took, and go through configuration menus, but they dont preview the scene before you take a shot.) Get a digital SLR thats at least 8 Mega pixle. I love my canon digital rebel xt. Now the digital rebel xti is out. Get it if you can afford it.

http://members.aol.com/freedog1000/maine/pic5b.htm

Answer 5

No, you're actually not "goofy in the top." digital perhaps heavily coming near the easy of action picture, despite the fact that it ain't particularly there yet. alongside time in the past i became into instructed that it may take a 64mpx image to equivalent that of a 35mm slide. not being the "technocrat" i'm specific that is off by making use of modern standards, yet permit me assure you, if I take an staggering, nicely uncovered, 35mm transparency and have it revealed to 24"x36" it is going to blow a extreme end DSLR image out of the water for high quality. That being reported, in view that maximum pictures are on no account enlarged that lots, I could desire to admit pictures photographed in "uncooked" and switched over to "tiff" would be indistinguishable at as much as 11x14 from a 35mm action picture version.

Answer 6

I have to agree that only DSLR cameras can only replace 35mm cameras. I owned variety of cameras in the past and now I own Nikon D50 DSLR digital SLR camera and I love it. I love the fact that I can capture any scene and make it just the way I want it on my laptop make it as realistic as possible or apply any affect that I desire between Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop there is no limit to your creativity.

So I can't see myself going back to film ever in my lifetime. There is no going back for me. I'm very happy with my results!

Answer 7

I have a Pentax K1000 and it gives me such beautiful portrait shots. While digital cameras give you bright and clear pictures, they seem to lack the depth and image manupulation qualities that a 35mm camera affords the photographer.

Answer 8

I still use film and consider myself an old fossil since everyone is jumping onto the digital bandwagon for the sake of convenience while overlooking quality. To each his own. If you're interested in a good camera to start off with, and you want to start off with film, then I would suggest the Nikon N80 to start with. It is the most versatile camera around, and I would encourage you to look for the Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-5.6D lens or the cheaper but equally as good and versatile lens 35-105mm f/3.5-5.6D(macro). Both cameras can be used totally manual with or without auto-focus and semi-automatic (with or without AF) in either aperture priority or shutter speed priority, or fully automatic (where it sets the aperture and shutter speed) in manual or auto-focus; it has 3 great metering modes, too (average, 3D matrix and spot) and many other pro-level features, plus it is a very sturdy and ergonomically built camera. The suggested lenses can be used as wide angle, regular, short telephoto, portrait lens or for macro-photography; the lenses are also very well-built and are made with superior glass formula. Check with www.keh.com and see what you can find; keep going back every 2 days or so; they get new inventory everyday.

If you're interested in a very good digital SLR, let me suggest the latest camera put out by Nikon: the D80. Similar to the one described above, but get it with the kit lens and save yourself a lot of grief.

When you buy a camera, you are buying into a system of lenses. In time, you will progress to the point where you will need other lenses for other activities or assignments, and Nikon has not changed its lens mount since 1959, so you will be able to fit older lenses as well as newer lenses with the possible loss of auto-focus if the lens is not an AF lens, or possibly the loss of metering if the lens doesn't have the contacts... but the lens will fit and you will be able to shoot with them all.

Check out this site and click on "How to.." and look for info on the D80: http://www.kenrockwell.com/

Good luck and best wishes.

Answer 9

I love my digital and my BF loves his 35 mm. Mine is Cannon power shot (S2 IS model #) and has an awesome telephoto lens......takes great pics.etc. His is a Pantax and we have to take the film to town, but takes great pics. To each his own.