camera brands

[photoshots]

Hi! I'm just new here... and newbie in photography. I just want to ask you guys.. does camera matters for the pictures? i mean camera brands is the most important? if it does... what can you suggest for a newbie just like me?

[tegan]

Camera brands are pretty close in quality. One camera for example may provide low light photos with less grain or picture noise than another one, but at the cost of less sharpness and resolution. The opposite approach by another brand may be more emphasis on resolution and sharpness at the cost of some grain and picture noise. One camera may have more button and adjustment controls on the camera body whereas another has them in menus on the screen.

The smaller point and shoot type cameras vary between some that are completely automatic to others that have a lot of manual options as well.The possible problem with the completely automatic kind is that they are set up for the "average snap shot" and give the photographer little control when the shot is NOT average.

Beyond picture noise or grain, megapixels matter too, if you eventually want to get an 8 by 10 or larger print of a great shot that you took. When all other factors are equal, more megapixels make the image in an enlargement sharper.

Tegan

[gibbon]

The camera is important but far more important is learning how to use it. If I was a newbie I would buy a good cheaper camera either traditional or digital.

Great painters and great photographers can all use the same tools (brushes/cameras) but the results won't even be close. Learn to use the tools first unless you are rich.

[tegan]

The advantage of digital to a newbie is that all that practicing and experimenting does not cost you money at the photo lab. You can simply erase what did not work out and only print your great shots.

Tegan