What is the Best Brand of Digital camera for a ame-that could become professional?

Question

I Love Photography & I'm thinking of making it my major in college. What Kind of cameras do you Professional Photographers use?
Thanks In Advance!

Answer 1

Put simply, there is no best. Just what is best for you. Professional photographers base their choice on experience with a particular brand. Comfortability, Ease of Use, Options and such. You cannot be told what is the "BEST" as that is only that persons opinion. Some studio pro's use medium-formats and some location shoots as well. Others use simple slr's like the portrait studios in wal-mart. (not really what i would call "PRO")

All that aside, your "glass" or lens is where you get your real quality from shots. Crappy lenses will ALWAYS give you crappy shots. So keep that in mind when you start to consider what you would use and best of luck!!

Answer 2

If you read the first several answers to your question, you are being told, more or less, that there is a direct relationship between Canon and Nikon insofar as quality of image that does not exist with the other brands. Canon and Nikon have bought the digital business, but their units are no better made and do nothing more than other competitive lines. There is a Canon model with a full size 35mm sensor, but the prices for that are ridiculous and should never be paid by someone thinking that they might like to be a professional photographer.

The digital market in the SLRs has become a "me too" market, so if one professional buys a Canon model whatever, the ones that see him buy the same thing. The identical thing is also true of Nikon.

There are no flies on Pentax, Sony, Olympus and a myriad of other products.

The thing you need to know first is if you like photography to lay a bundle of cash on the table for a camera that will be outdated, at most, by next year.

I have digitals and I have film camera, 35mm and medium format in the film. I would suggest to someone who is just looking around and taking into photography classes that they get a good quality, virtually all manual, 35mm camera so that they can learn photography from the ground up and know when they get a digital what the devil 200 different buttons do on the digital camera.

I would suggest that you look into Canon A1, AE1 cameras as well as the comparative Nikons, Pentaxes, Olympus and older Minoltas. They are built like bricks, the glass quality surpasses what is made today for the price and take a course in basic photography.

If you have to purchase a digital, purchase one that fits your budget and don't go out and buy one that you will have to pawn your mother's wedding ring to get the money to but it. Pentax, Canon, Nikon, and Olympus all have reasonably priced cameras that are excellent.

Watch out for people who suggest high priced cameras.

Answer 3

A photographer named Lee Frost once said:

"While many photographers dream of owning the all-singing, all-dancing SLR, you don't actually need one to take successful pictures: a top-of-the-range Nikon or canon swinging from your shoulder may look impressive, but if you are a skilled photographer you will be able to produce breathtaking work with any camera no matter how simple. Thats because a camera is essentially just a lightproof box that holds a roll of film so that you can expose it to light and record photographic images, and while all the fancy features, modes and functions that modern cameras offer undoubtedly make the picture taking process quicker and easier, none of them can actually make you a better photographer - only imagination and creativity can do that."

So if you are asking which camera is best that is entirely up to you. They are all good, hell my husbands Sony Cybershot is good....but it takes the photographer to make them awesome. I will say this though don't go below 10.1 MegaPixels on a digital camera, clearity will be better.

Answer 4

It depends on your speciality. There are various types of very specialist cameras on the market but for general purpose use I'd estimate that 90%+ use Canon or Nikon DSLRs nowadays.

The brand itself is a very subjective judgment as both Canon and Nikon have their fans and many have used both systems over the years. I've also used both and now major on Canons.

For picture library use and commercial images I reckon you'd be looking at a 10mp+ camera - one of the best value ones at the moment is the Canon 400d, not a 'pro spec' camera per se due to it's build quality, but nevertheless well capable of covering most pro jobs in terms of output quality.

Answer 5

When I was doing photography as a job, the most sought after camera was the one that didn't break. I have 40 year old Pentaxes and Rolleis, that are worth about nothing, and the same will be true of these plastic multi-thousand wonders, about a year after they're bought.

Answer 6

Canon, Nikon, and Leicas are widely use by pros.

Upper end Nikons have exceptional flash control. Upper end Canons offer huge sensors and lots of pixels.

Think build quality and reliability when you think Pro.

For film cameras, I do not suggest anything that shoots under 6x7cm. You can't go wrong with a RZ67 or a Fuji 690.

Answer 7

ok...here is thedown and dirt strait answer.
unless you are going to do larger scale dig cameras (on the low end they cost 6k used, with nothing else, lenses, acces. etc. nothing....so I'm assuming you not going to go that route)
there are two routes, Nikon, or Canon.
Both are solid cameras, Get your hands on both and see which camera "feels" better in your hands, and which one has the camera controls laid out in a way you like...I know that sounds wishy washy but its good advice...alot of it is personal taste...
I use a Nikon (D200 and D100) (D2x and D3's are out of my price range and a bit of overkill for what I use)...where's why

Nikon has a standard mount that hasn't changed over the past 60 years, so I have 2 lenses that are older than me, that take good pictures, and they work on my dig cameras...in a full manual mode...but they do work...and this is true with 99% of the not Nikon DX lenses out there...old lenses will still work.

Nikon "usually" are more camera oriented...what I mean is, they have more traditional camera style controls...Canon will use more menues and buttons to control how to operate the diffrent functions, and while you can change the exact same settings in a canon that you can in a Nikon, you have to go through more menus to get to it. Nikon's on the other hand uses more specialized buttons and control wheels that while shooting immediately can change specific essential camera functions, which means I can react to and adjust for a rapidly changing situation.

Nikon DSLR's are ususally bigger, heavier, and a little tougher that the equivalent Canon. I'm 6'3"...I have big hands...the nikon bodies are "feel" bigger and more spread out so they are easier for me to use. I hike with my camera in hand...and while I've only dropped my cameras once or twice, they've been ok afterwards, because they are built a bit tougher...but it come at a price, they are heavier...noticably heavier...but I'm a big enouth guy, that doesn't bother me.

Now, I love my Nikon's...but I'm not going to say they are always the right choice...Canon was the first to make their cameras with 35mm sized CCD's...not Nikon...LOTS of astrophotographers...stars and such (and just a reality check, if these people are willing to shell out 10k for a good scope, they are not afraid to shell out money for good gear) use Canon, or have used Nikon's and switched to Canon...why?...customer support...(bear with me here I'm making a point) shooting a basically black sky...takes Long exposure times, which creates static "Noise" on the picture which makes very small dots of different colors...this makes Astro people very cross...so they asked for this to be fixed...Canon updated the noise reduction firmware, to help...Nikon pointed out "using long exposure time increases the amount of noise produced in a picture" (...wel yeah, duh?)...and suggested not to do that...and that was all...no help...at all. Nikon isn't the best of companies to deal with.

But all things in consideration Nikon was the best decision for me...you need to see what is best for you, what you shoot and how you shoot. And when looking check out adrama.com for prices...I've been dealing with them since I started, and I have found a better place to deal with, price and service.

Answer 8

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