What type of camera should I be getting?
I’m really into photography and I have the money to buy a pretty nice camera. Nothing like 2,000 dollars or anything, but I want to know what type of camera would be good with taking action shots like skateboarding or alot of movement, but also takes really nice portrait pictures too. Help please! 🙂
Get yourself a 35 mm, SLR (Single Lens Reflex) film camera.
A Canon EOS Rebel will do what you want for about $400.00 and it is both automatic as well as manual.
For the sports shots you want; you have to get a fast film, and preferably a fast lens, (about another $400.00) but the lens that does come with the camera should do the job you want quite adequatly.
Use an film speed with an ISO of 800 and for dusk scenes an ISO of 1600 should do. The 800 ISO can be purchased in many stores, but the 1600 ISO has to be bought from a camera shop. But not one that is a franchise like Blacks or Wal Mart. The independant camera stores will be more likely to stock those fast films.
You can get a 3200 ISO film as well but it only comes in black and white and I think that only Kodak makes it.(it’s a really fast film, you can take night scenes with that one!)
The 800 & 1600 ISO film can be bought in colour film and I would suggest Fujicolour for colour film but Kodak for all your black and white films.
For your portraiture photos use a slow speed film of 100 or 200 ISO.
You can get as low as 24 ISO in black and white film and that gives you an extreme amount of detail. However the lower your ISO the more light you will need to use it! Okay?
The higher your ISO the less light you will need.
The higher the film speed the more grainy your negatives will be, hence you will have grainier photos than a film speed of 100 ISO.
The Canon EOS is the most common SLR the students of photography buy. It’s a good strong camera and it does take good photos. It can be geared to work with a fast film to take action photos like the skateboarders you want to catch.
All the best to you in your endeavours.
EDIT: A lot of the youth today go with the digital cameras but I would caution against that. Although film looks like it is going out of style I can assure you that it will be around for a very long time. Digital cannot compare with a film speed of 800 or 400 ISO and it will be decades before they produce a digital camera that can come close to the quality of an 400 ISO film. Although the digitals give you immediate gratification it loses out in quality. Film may be more expensive in the short run but in the long run? It is the best choice.
you may want to look into a D SLR or a digital SLR camera. they work really well. possibly check out a Best Buy or a Ritz Camera shop or just a camera shop in general and see what they think. But SLR cameras are pretty nice for action and portrait shots. alot of yearbook groups use them
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well it sounds like this would be your first good camera, so i suggest a lower end DSLR.
i have a Canon Rebel XT that takes great action shots and portraits for a kind of skilled beginner (if that even makes sense) like me.
so try looking into the Rebel XTi or XSi. they’re pretty much just updated versions of the XT.
i think my deviantart kind of exemplifies a lot of the different things you can do with an XT: http://livyyy.deviantart.com/gallery/
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Get yourself a 35 mm, SLR (Single Lens Reflex) film camera.
A Canon EOS Rebel will do what you want for about $400.00 and it is both automatic as well as manual.
For the sports shots you want; you have to get a fast film, and preferably a fast lens, (about another $400.00) but the lens that does come with the camera should do the job you want quite adequatly.
Use an film speed with an ISO of 800 and for dusk scenes an ISO of 1600 should do. The 800 ISO can be purchased in many stores, but the 1600 ISO has to be bought from a camera shop. But not one that is a franchise like Blacks or Wal Mart. The independant camera stores will be more likely to stock those fast films.
You can get a 3200 ISO film as well but it only comes in black and white and I think that only Kodak makes it.(it’s a really fast film, you can take night scenes with that one!)
The 800 & 1600 ISO film can be bought in colour film and I would suggest Fujicolour for colour film but Kodak for all your black and white films.
For your portraiture photos use a slow speed film of 100 or 200 ISO.
You can get as low as 24 ISO in black and white film and that gives you an extreme amount of detail. However the lower your ISO the more light you will need to use it! Okay?
The higher your ISO the less light you will need.
The higher the film speed the more grainy your negatives will be, hence you will have grainier photos than a film speed of 100 ISO.
The Canon EOS is the most common SLR the students of photography buy. It’s a good strong camera and it does take good photos. It can be geared to work with a fast film to take action photos like the skateboarders you want to catch.
All the best to you in your endeavours.
EDIT: A lot of the youth today go with the digital cameras but I would caution against that. Although film looks like it is going out of style I can assure you that it will be around for a very long time. Digital cannot compare with a film speed of 800 or 400 ISO and it will be decades before they produce a digital camera that can come close to the quality of an 400 ISO film. Although the digitals give you immediate gratification it loses out in quality. Film may be more expensive in the short run but in the long run? It is the best choice.
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