Re: Help in selecting camera
- From: "Walter R." <wer25@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 19:08:48 -0700
My primary interest is recording interesting moments and expressions
on people's faces.
I have traveled all over the world. I found it very difficult to take photos
of faces of people I encountered. People just do not like to have a camera
showed into their face, not even mentioning a fill-in flash. It invades
their privacy sphere. You may get beaten up or have your camera destroyed.
So, be careful. Try to get a person's permission before you photograph their
face. You may encounter resistance and may have to pay the person a monetary
incentive.
Some primitive people believe that, if you take a photo of their face, you
are taking their soul away.
I found it helpful to use a long telephoto lens and have somebody pose for
me close by, while actually pointing the camera in a slightly different
direction to capture an interesting face beyond the person posing.
You may also run into a copyright problem.
You will not have these problems with nature photography.
In any case, why not start off with a P/S camera for maybe $ 150. These
cameras are very light and usually have an optical plus digital zoom
facility, which will give you anything from macro to 10X zoom, without heavy
lenses. Only after taking and digesting several hundred photos will you be
able to decide on the degree of your involvement with photography.
Enjoy
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Walter
www.rationality.net
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"rays" <ray.subhasis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1180209422.833899.121360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I need help for selecting my first camera. May I request your kind
advice for the same?
I have used analog camera borrowed from other people ( rather old,
1980's, don't-know-what-model camera, supposed to be quite advanced in
its time, with manual speed and aperture control - and the photos
came not-too-bad). However comfortable with the maths and physics for
manual controls, I have no clue about the terms used in camera-
websites.
My primary interest is recording interesting moments and expressions
on people's faces. In particular I want to do the exact opposite of
making people stand stiffly and say "Cheese". I am not sure whether
this falls in the category of street photography, but some of the
samples from street photography sites match my interest.
As far as I could gather from those websites (http://www.luminous-
landscape.com/tutorials/street.shtml, http://photo.net/learn/street/intro
), they appear to be talking about film cameras, while the Leica site
(http://www.leica-camera.us/photography/) already has some digital
cameras in similar categories.
I am not sure whether digital camera will give me what I want. Are
they too slow for taking quick snaps? Do they allow enough manual
control? But regarding the film-cameras, I don't know anything about
darkroom techniques, and the shops that used to wash our films seem to
be moving to the business of printing digital photos.
On the other side I feel allured by the possibility of doing some
nature photography. It seems that digital SLR-s are meant for that.
Can there be a compromise between quick snap of people and nature
photo? Or should I go for two different cameras? I heard of "Canon
Digital Rebel XTi" being a small SLR camera. Could that be used for
fast snaps at home?
I can afford at most $1500 and I have to decide it quick. Please
help.
Thanks and regards,
Ray S.
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