would anyone recommend a good camera for professional journalism?

Answer 1

Any digital SLR will do. Lots of people will claim that the only viable choices are Nikon and Canon, but these people have been brainwashed by those companies' massive marketing campaigns. Pentax makes fine digital SLRs, and they are less expensive than the Nikons and Canons -- because Pentax doesn't spend as much money on marketing.

Canon is extremely popular with sports photographers because of its cameras' high frames-per-second rate. But timing is everything with action. If your timing is off, a machine gun won't help you, except in wasting shots.

I currently use the Pentax *ist D, mostly for landscape. But I've had success with baseball and even hockey. (It helps tremendously if you know the sport well and can anticipate where the action will be.) I hope to be moving on to Pentax's newest DSLR, the K10. It features 10 megapixels (vs. the *ist D's 6), a slightly higher frame rate, a larger buffer, internal shake reduction for low-light shooting, and a weather-sealed body. If you want shake reduction with Canon, you'll have to invest LOTS of money in each lens, as Canon doesn't put shake reduction technology into its bodies.

Buying the camera with the highest resolution isn't necessary in journalism because newspapers don't print in a high resolution. A 6-megapixel camera does just fine for a 13x19 print -- a size you will never print with in journalism.

What makes a photo professional has more to do with who's behind the camera than the label on the camera.

Answer 2

Well in the old days it was Nikon so I would think either Nikon Digital cameras or Nikons with different lenses.

I also think any really good brand of Digital camera would suffice as they no longer keep cans of film around and just download the pics from the digital cameras.

Answer 3

Dont play around, get a Hasselblad, Minox, Cannon. Nikon makes some nice Digi Cams, Kodak does also.

Answer 4

A really cool camera being used by many photographers right now, is the "fisheye two" camera....it's pretty cool I must say....I have one....you can find out all about it here plus the kind of pics you can expect.....
http://shop.lomography.com/fisheye/

Answer 5

sony always best. but dont get digital

Answer 6

canon or nikon

Answer 7

olympus