What is my best choice in this digital cameras?

Question

I am going to use this cameras more for Study, but I already have a good SLR 35film base, so, for me, more manual controls, better! Maybe I will not buy lens in the future, thats why i put non DSLR too. Remember, I prefer more manual controls and more film than digital look. I will only give BEST ANSWER someone that justify the answer

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50 $529
Olympus E-500 $579
CAnon EOS Digital Rebel VT(350d) 18-55mm $600
Nikon D50 18-55mm $600
Pentax K100D 18-55mm $590
Fujifilm FinePix S9100 $480

Has you can see, i dont want cameras more than $700. If you want to give suggestion of another camera. You are welcome to do it.

I put "non DSLR"

I SAD MAYBE I AM NOT GOING TO CHANGE LENS!! THAT'S WHY I PUT "NO DSLR TOO" MAYBE THEY CAN BE BETTER FOR ME CAUSE THEY DONT HAVE THE PROBLEM OF THE DUST ON THE CHIP.

Answer 1

I am going to vote with Kirkus and Morey000 on this decision. You definitely want either the Canon EOS 350D or the Nikon D50. I own a D70s and D200 and got my wife a D50, which I occasionally use myself. To me, the Nikon is more camera and more suitable for someone with your film background. If nothing else sways you, the fact that the Canon does not even have a spot meter might make the decision for you. It will meter the center 10%, but that's hardly a spot meter, which would be more like 2-3%.

The "kit" lens is a decent lens optically, but you might want to upgrade to the Nikkor AF-S 18-70 f/3.5-4.5G ED DX lens for a bit more range and a lot more durability. When you are ready to add lenses, the sky is the limit with Nikon. Then, when you upgrade your camera, you will have a nice, useful collection of lenses.

Get a 1 GB memory card, such as the Sandisk "Ultra" for decent write speed.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d50.htm

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Nikon/nikon_d50.asp

The D40 is the hot new cute DSLR from Nikon, but frankly, it costs the SAME as the D50 and is not as versatile, especially for an experienced photographer. I'd just buy the D50 and be done with it, as the D40 is going to be hard to find anyway.

Actually, many people are picking up on the idea that the D50 is the bargain of the century and it's getting hard to find.

Someone here compared the Canon SLR's to "really advanced point and shoot cameras," and the Nikon's are just more like the "real" cameras that you are accustomed to.
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Additional:

I'm sorry that I did not understand what you meant by "non DSLR too." Since your list included 3 DSLR's, I assumed that you were interested in possibly getting a DSLR. I do not know enough about the details on the other cameras to comment, so I'll bow out now.

Answer 2

firstly- the Panasonic and Fuji's are not DSLRs, which puts them in a different category. Given that their ccds are much smaller, the quality of the noise characteristics may look a little less film like than the DSLRs which will offer a bit more dynamic range and lower noise.

For features and controls: see if you can find a Konica-Minolta A2 (not A200) on ebay. Shouldn't be more than $400. It's not made any more, but in the pro-sumer class of digital cameras there's was and probably never will be anything like it. Not great at high ISO tho'.

As far as manual controls- photographically, they'll all offer you the controls you need to completely control aperture, shutter speed, metering, color balance, ISO sensitivity, flash compensation, etc. So- while some have certain features that others don't have, I'm not sure that it will make much of a difference, photographically speaking. You might want to consider the new Nikon D40- it's in your price range and a better hand feel than the Canon. The Pentax has arguably, the biggest and brightest viewfinder. You'll need to play with them and see which one tickles your fancy. No one is really that much better than the other.

Answer 3

Go with the Nikon or Canon you have listed. Make your decision on what type of lens mount your film camera has, you might be able to use some of the lenes you already own. With Nikon and Canon being the top two DSLR manufacturers, I'd stick with either of them and build my lens inventory from there, so when you decide to move to digital 100% you'll have a good starting point. Check out "DPReview" .com for in-depth reviews of all of the cameras you have listed.

Answer 4

The grain you're seeing is called noise in a digital camera and is therefore of numerous aspects consisting of image high quality putting, ISO putting, sensor length and attainable gentle between the most effortless. Assuming you do not pick to clutter with the ISO (the digital camera's sensitivity to gentle with larger numbers being more effective gentle, yet also having more effective realative noise), the gentle and image high quality will be what you are able to administration. you want good gentle to get rid of the noise no be counted what putting, so use the flash interior and seem for diffuse gentle outdoors (cloudy days or finished coloration in the course of the day supply the suitable gentle till you attempt to achieve a particular result). so a techniques because the picture high quality, use those aspects to make your decision. memory is low-priced, get more effective memory and shoot on the optimal high quality putting. in case you do not pick to objective this, use 3M or larger in case you is basically no longer cropping, utilising digital zoom (evade utilising that contained in the digital camera, or you're effectively dropping your image high quality - optical zoom is okay), or printing more effective than 4 X 6. in case you pick larger prints, or are capturing in undesirable gentle or will be cropping the %, you'll pick a larger putting (a lot less %. in step with card) to cut back the noise. BTW, the ratios are maximum probably ingredient ratios (ratio of top to width) besides as high quality putting. do not comprehend what the default ratio is on that digital camera, yet 35 mm cameras use a 6:4. you are able to continuously change the ingredient ratio once you crop and also you settle on what to crop. in case you take advantage of a digital camera putting, the digital camera comes to a decision what to crop depending on the middle of your %. concentration on the M numbers that are megapixels -the bigger the shape, the more effective megapixels and the more effective useful high quality (on the price of fewer photos in step with card).

Answer 5

I have a Fuji FinePix S 9000. It has more bells and whistles than you can imagine. I have fun using this camara and the results are fantastic.

Answer 6

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