Disposable cameras are good for you! :} Remember, not every shot needs to be taken 5.5 feet off the ground. And close focus doesn't work at all on them. The lens is wide angle and slow.
I've broken down and decided to get a DSLR. Are you proud of me, or ashamed? Probably Nikon (THAT should make you proud!), a the hypothetical D60 if it comes out between now and then, otherwise probably a D80. And a 35mm f/2 and 50mm f/1.8 for my dance photos, and whatever zooms happen to fall in my lap besides the primes.
The Nikon definitely feels better in my hands than Canon equivalents, and I like the viewfinder MUCH better.
Re: *Very* proud of you.......:)freeimprovOctober 26 2006, 13:31:00 UTC
I think the 35mm f/2 would do me; I know my shooting conditions for bellydance well. I mostly shoot with plain 50mm lenses on 35mm cameras. Lighting can be poor and flash is absolutely prohibited (not that it stops all the people with dinky slow digicams who can't or don't know how to turn it off and can't get shots with or without it anyway). Shutter speed is pretty much fixed by the action at 1/60, so what varies is aperture. I usually see f/2-f/4 at 800 ISO. Fast lenses are the ONLY option!
And unfortunately, beyond 35mm fast lenses get prohibitively expensive and large. And really, I haven't found much use for wide angle with dancers anyway. Outdoors, yes, but there I don't need the speed and a regular wide zoom kit lens will do.
Given my lens needs, I'd rather put my money into glass than a better body. No D200 for me. :( But I do need the faster sensor, so it's D80, unless they come up with a lower-end camera with the same sensor.
Yes, it is. It's not the model, it's the photographer. Do your best and have wonderful shots!! I wish I could take a part in such challenge, too, even of I feel I can't make any photos recently. It's like I have no ideas what to shoot when I am standing outside with a camera in my hand. Like in the seaside recently. I have ideas when I am at home - then I know what kind of trees I wish to capture... But anyway I feel I had better imagination 10 years ago.
Nice story about the kitty :D My can never goes out, but he wants me to give him some better food all the time. And I give him the pre-prepared food for fixed cats, with some other kind from time to time. Poor Fidelius.
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I've broken down and decided to get a DSLR. Are you proud of me, or ashamed? Probably Nikon (THAT should make you proud!), a the hypothetical D60 if it comes out between now and then, otherwise probably a D80. And a 35mm f/2 and 50mm f/1.8 for my dance photos, and whatever zooms happen to fall in my lap besides the primes.
The Nikon definitely feels better in my hands than Canon equivalents, and I like the viewfinder MUCH better.
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And unfortunately, beyond 35mm fast lenses get prohibitively expensive and large. And really, I haven't found much use for wide angle with dancers anyway. Outdoors, yes, but there I don't need the speed and a regular wide zoom kit lens will do.
Given my lens needs, I'd rather put my money into glass than a better body. No D200 for me. :( But I do need the faster sensor, so it's D80, unless they come up with a lower-end camera with the same sensor.
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Yes, it is. It's not the model, it's the photographer. Do your best and have wonderful shots!! I wish I could take a part in such challenge, too, even of I feel I can't make any photos recently. It's like I have no ideas what to shoot when I am standing outside with a camera in my hand. Like in the seaside recently. I have ideas when I am at home - then I know what kind of trees I wish to capture... But anyway I feel I had better imagination 10 years ago.
Nice story about the kitty :D My can never goes out, but he wants me to give him some better food all the time. And I give him the pre-prepared food for fixed cats, with some other kind from time to time. Poor Fidelius.
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