Do i need a good camera to be a photographers..?

Question

i really love photography...im using a fuji finepix s5600 also known as s5200...and i love it...what do think?

Answer 1

You don't need a "good" camera to take a good photograph. When I experimented with cardboard and aluminum foil pinhole cameras, I managed to create some very fine compositions. However, the nature of the camera demanded some extremely limited lighting conditions, and, action shots were impossible.

But the situation you describe can be be responded to by offering a very basic truism. To do consistantly good work, you need good tools. Professionals and talented amateurs do not spend thousands of dollars on equipment, just to look "cool." That kind of money buys performance, and quality of workmanship.

Your Fuji can take very good, and, sometimes great photos. My first digital camera was a similar unit. But there came a time when I became frustrated when three megapixels was not enough for quality enlargements. 3X optical zoom could not get me close enough to the action. And the limited manual overides would limit what I could capture in a file.

I had to bite the bullet and upgrade to better equipment. This was almost three years ago, and, I have severely outgown my current camera. I HAVE to spend money on a better camera. I don't know, yet, what camera I will buy, but I DO know, in very specific detail, EXACTLY which features and functionality I will expect.

And this performance will NOT be cheap.

So, explore you camera. Push it's capabilities to its limits. If you are satisfied with the results, you may NEVER need another, more expensive unit. But, the first time you realize that you can't get the shot you want becuse the subject is too far away, the light is too dim, the action is too fast, or the pixels on the print are too big, THAT is when you will re-evaluate what you mean by a "good" camera.

Answer 2

The camera is the tool used, the photographer is the one that makes the image.

Any camera, used by a skilled photographer can acheive great images. What getting a better camera does is help the photographer capture the images they want to get easier.

I could give you my DSLR right now, and I could take your Fuji s5600(I have one of those also, by the way) and outshoot you.

However, if we are at the same skill level and shooting proficiency, then whoever is using the Fuji can get comparable images, they would just have to work harder/smarter to get the same.

Now, given all that I've said above...there are spme things that a better camera(SLR/DSLR) can provide you that the P&S cannot:

1) Better/bigger sensor/film on the DSLR/SLR. The sensors/film on the DSL/SLR are WAY better than any point and shoot. They have lower noise at higher ISO and better low light performance.

2) SLR/DSLR have better power management. You might be able to get 200-400 images out of a P&S without using the flash on one charge of batteries. On a DSLR/SLR I can get about 2000+ images before my battery is drained, or roughly 50 rolls of film.

3) Interchangable lenses. I can change my lenses to suit the shooting needs of the situation. The P&S is stuck with the lens that it has, forever.

4) Faster response times. I'm talking about focus speed as well as shutter lag. A DSLR/SLR is almost instantaneous in these regards. Ever take a picture with your P&S and it not be what was framed in the view finder when you pressed the button? That's shutter lag, coupled with slow auto focus speed. on a DSLR/SLR, you generally get in the frame what was there when you press the shutter button.

There are more, but this should be enough.

If you've exhausted all there is from the camera you have, then I'd say start looking at a DSLR/SLR...but make sure that you're willing to spend the time to (a) master the basics and understand their relationship to each other(shutter speed/aperture/ISO = exposure) and (b) learn your camera inside and out(the SLR/DSLR you buy). A lot of people get upset because the images that come out of a DSLR/SLR right away sometimes do not look as good. It's not because the camera is not capable. It's because more manual intervention is needed by the photographer. More control = more creativity = more responsibility.
A P&S is designed to create an image that is ready to print right from the camera. A DSLR/SLR can be set up to allow for a generous amount of post processing(work after the image is taken - on the computer or in the darkroom).

Answer 3

I love the fuji finepix camera and use it out in the open a lot with the N or normal setting. I will never be a great photography but what you would call a journeyman. That means that I have taken a photography class and made an A.

To help me along in my photography I use a software program to mend some of the mistakes and make the photo more interesting.

Here is a link to a demonstration I did just for this Yahoo answer:

http://curbsideview.blogspot.com/2007/11/making-bland-photo-better.html
curbside view: Making a bland photo better

Answer 4

It is continually mentioned that the first-rate of a photo is widely stylish at the technical capabilities and the inventive eye of the photographer. I by and large write that an completed photographer can take a higher photograph with a three megapixel factor-and-shoot than a neophyte with a among the best SLR. However, your query refers to 2 similarly proficient photographers. In that case, the higher snap shots will come from the extra equipped digicam with the higher optics. That's why skilled photographers purchase the ones cameras. It offers them yet another degree of first-rate. But that's to not say that a beginner will take higher graphics with the extra steeply-priced equipment. In truth it is much less most probably. That's given that they'll inadvertently difference a surroundings and no longer know the way to undo it, thereby ruining their photographs.

Answer 5

You already have a more versatile camera than what Ansel Adams used.

Learn how composition and lighting creates emotion and interest in your photography with the Fuji, and then if/when it doesn't get you where you want to go, then you'll be in a much better position to pick a camera that will take you there.

Also consider that taking the picture is half the magic - post processing is what made Ansel so great - he manipulated exposures in the darkroom using burn & dodge to create dynamic range in a print that didn't otherwise exist.

Answer 6

A good camera is like a scalpel in the hands of a surgeon.
I wouldn't want to be operated on with the best scalpel in the world in the hands of a hack.
But, give me the worst scalpel in the world in the hands of a great surgeon and I'm much happier.

Answer 7

Interestingly great photographs were taken with ordinary Cameras by good photographers. Camera depends on your requirement of the subject that you want to specialize.

Answer 8

No. your camera is, the tool of your craft. Not your skill, efforts or insight. If we handed some great artist a stick, & took his brushes, he would still, turn out, a masterpiece.
Besides, there is demand for images that have a small file size, & still be a striking visual.

Answer 9

A good camera sure helps... but if you love what you are doing then you are a photographer!

Answer 10

PASSION is everything,but good camera helps too.