Is there a difference between a digital 'semi-professional' camera and 'professional' camera; if so, what?

Question

I read that 'professional' cameras have expanded features like lens length and light meter sensitivity than 'semi-professional.' What results can you get with a 'professional' camera you can't get with a 'semi-professional.' and can a good photographer compensate with skills and creativity and use the semi-professional model with results as good as a 'professional' camera?

Answer 1

A few comments here:

-- A good photographer can take interesting photos with any camera. Having said that....


-- Cameras and the lenses we mount on them are tools. If we're putting food on the table with that tool - we want reliability and the most capable feature set. It is for this reason that pro equipment usually has the following features:

* Weather sealing so you can use it in any types of weather

* Built from tougher materials - titanium or magnesium instead of plastic or aluminum so that the equipment can stand some banging around without being damaged

* Spot metering and high frame per second with a huge buffer and other technical features that increas the probability of getting the shot

Many consumer grade DSLRs have some of these features so it really comes down to affordability. As an analogy, think about the fact that you could build a house with consumer grader black and decker tools, but if you were going to do it every day for a living, you might invest in Skil or Dewalt.

Answer 2

Typically, professional models are made from more durable materials and have more features that you simply may not need. semi-professional models are consumer grade models. Semi-professional is a marketing term to help sell cheaper camera bodies. These cameras have alot of useful features and are usually good enough for the average joe. Lens length is not determined by the professional/semi-professional catagory, rather lenses are purchase separately and you can use any lens on any body made for by that particular manufacturer or after market manufacturer. Great photography comes from your artistic skills and technical ability 80/20. So go out and buy what you can afford in the 8 - 10 mpixel range and work on your abilities and techniques. If you want to spend more money, wait till you get better and spend it on a good lens or lenses.

Answer 3

Professional has more to do with what you can do with the camera in your hands rather than the "market classification" of y our camera. One of the best two pictures that I have taken was done with a fixed focus old Olympus with a 35mm lens in it.

I have seen professional photographers that once you get them outside of the studio could nto take a picture of a turtle on a fence post.

Answer 4

Semi Professional was a person that doesn't qualify to be a Professional, Professional was a person that have Photography Titles from Overseas,like ARPS (London) and APSNY (New York) or Bachelor of Arts in Photography(London),your have written wrongly, it's didn't means of Cameras.