$500 or below? We have many hills and the skt turns nice colors. Also have a mountain about 10 miles away. My wife would like to do some close up picture taking with it as well?
Any help or suggestion would be nice. So far i found a sony Cybershot that zooms up to 25x. Is this enough? Please include links to items if you can.
2007-12-18 05:33:02 · 3 answers · asked by mishi h 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
You may want to take a look at Canon G9. It supports RAW shooting. You can edit your pictures with Photoshop before sending it to print.
2007-12-18 08:53:15 · answer #1 · answered by TheCat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest a DSLR with 10mp. The larger sensor will help greatly with big enlargements.
You'll want to use the lowest ISO setting possible and a tripod. A good sturdy tripod. Bogen/Manfrotto, Giottos, Slik, Velbon are good choices. Don't waste your money on no-name tripods from Target or Wal-Mart, etc.
For your scenics you'll want a prime (fixed focal length) lens, perhaps 18mm (with a 1.5 crop factor its equivalent to a 27mm lens on a 35mm film camera; a crop factor of 1.6 would be equivalent to a 29mm lens). Prime lenses are a little sharper than zoom lenses and if you're planning on huge enlargements you want every advantage you can get. Use a polarizer to dramatically darken the sky.
Also, keep in mind that longer telephotos - or zooms - are best used on really clear days for distant subjects. Why? Because any atmospheric haze or pollution will be magnified by the longer lens. Its called the "compression effect". A Haze filter can help but isn't a cure-all. Shoot early in the morning or after a nice cleansing rain.
With a DSLR your wife can buy a true macro lens and enjoy getting a 1:1 (life-size) image of tiny objects. A zoom lens marked 'macro" is misleading - it will seldom give more than a 1:4 (1/4 life size) image. A true macro lens is optimized for close focusing and has a flat field of focus, very desirable for photographing stamps or other flat subjects.
When choosing your DSLR, IMO you should include the Pentax K10D and Sony A100 or newer A700. Both are 10mp, both have Image Stabilization in the camera body. The Pentax can use every K-mount lens made since 1975 (in manual focus) and the Sony can use every MINOLTA MAXXUM AF lens made since 1985.
Hope this has been of some help.
2007-12-18 08:52:58 · answer #2 · answered by EDWIN 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
any with megapixels of 10 or 12
2007-12-18 07:12:37 · answer #3 · answered by Elvis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋