Is digital photography good enough these days?

Question

Can moderately priced digicams take pictures that can be used in magazine displays or similiar? By moderately priced, I mean hundreds of dollars rather than thousands including any periferals needed for professional work.

Answer 1

i think it is okay for market
but i think for Art, manual cameras sometimes r preferred

Answer 2

Yes they can, based on my experience with an hp photosmart 435 3.1 MP which cost between $100-$150 dollars; I have had my work published in a local newspaper. At the same time, the zoom lens is not a true zoom lens, it's focal length is 33 inches, and there are lots of other problems that you may encounter with a low resolution camera. I would buy a camera with as many MP as you can afford to buy but not in the thousands of dollars unless you are a professional photographer.

Answer 3

I think that digital technologies is good enough for very good quality work. With better sensors, good lenses and good software you can have a very good picture quality image.

DSLR from Canon, Nikon and Sony Alfa are good below 1,000. Of course, you can go higher. Some magazines publish some photographs from point and shoot cameras.

Now, lightings, tripod and reflectors and the rest paraphernalia are extras, but those peripherals also apply to film cameras. I think you're not considering the computer in the budget.

btw, I do think that film might have a slight advantage in film, maybe more dramatic in black and white photos, but it just depends for what you want to do.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Yes photos from any type of camera can be used in magazines. I know. I had a photo I took with a lower end digital camera end up on the cover of a magazine. So it is not the cost to get the photo that counts it is the photo itself.

Answer 6

I have a 9mp digital camera that takes great pictures. The question you need to ask yourself is how big are you going to enlarge the pictures. I would suggest at least 8mp, but do research before you make a purchase.

Michael

Answer 7

You "can". Its possible to just buy a camera and a lens kit and get it into magazine qualtiy. You have to take the time to take it in RAW and covert it yourself on your computer. But just the basics of photography, at least $1500. Filters so that you dont scratch your lens, extra batteries, etc.

Answer 8

ya, no doubt,you can have just a3 megapixel and send it to magazines.What makes a quality photo is the angle and the subject and the thought behing it.Something innovative.Also edit a bit before u send it to print or to CD collection.
Better do it with photoshop or google picasa(can download it free here http://angle-mine.blogspot.com ),,,as readjusting the tone etc gives an impression that u are a proffessional artist.

Answer 9

i'd say mostly no. SLRs are more flexible. you can do more faster. you have buttons at your fingertips. they shoot faster. etc etc. if you could, then you'd see pro photographers with nothing but point and shoot cameras. but you don't.

you can get a good SLR with a decent lense and a good flash for much less than thousands of dollars. and i think it's worth every penny.