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Re: Digital camera sugestions...and how to properly photoshoot your system ?

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In Reply to: Re: Digital camera sugestions...and how to properly photoshoot your system ? posted by Doug Schneider on June 29, 2004 at 06:08:16:

If all you're really interested in doing is shooting pictures for posting on a website or email, then I would agree with others that about any relatively inexpensive "point & shoot" digicam currently available will get the job done. However if you're like a lot of us, you will become addicted to digital photography, and will want a higher quality camera. You will then start wondering about the high-rez $1000 (or over) type cameras (I know this may not be in your cards yet...but hear me out). You will learn that there are at least 5 different 8 megapixel digicams capable of taking very good pictures -- still basically P&S but offer amenities that "pretend" to make them look like SLRs. However for that money, there are two excellent "entry level" digital SLRs that most serious photographers would say beat the high megapixel digicams hands-down. They are the Canon Rebel and the new Nikon D70 -- both have received excellent reviews. Having recently bought one of the 8 megapixel digicams, and quickly discovering its shortcomings (high noise, etc), I'm leaning toward selling that camera and moving to an SLR (probably the Nikon D70). Sort of a long-winded comment but I've been the P&S digicam route & unless you have absolutely no real interest in photography, you WILL eventually want to consider a digital SLR.

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The D70 is excellent (nt) - rnhood 16:34:25 06/29/04 (3)
- The D70 has one major shortcoming - gwkatabatic 23:31:22 06/29/04 (2)
  and that is its use of a "porro" mirror viewing system instead of a glass pentaprism, as is used in the D100. Have a look; you'll find with the D70 that the image appears to be down a tube, whereas with the D100 it's right there. The D100 is heavier, and $500 more expensive, but you may find that it's worth the extra money....
  - Interesting - rnhood 04:56:17 06/30/04 (1)
    I will have to take a look. Not sure if this "porro" viewfinder would bother me or not. Likely not. I also think the D100 is faster but I could be wrong here.
    The extra weight of the D100 really doesn't bother me because the D70 is not exactly light. $500?? Well that may have some say in this. Hard to say at this point.
    - ok, maybe not "major" - gwkatabatic 11:08:36 07/1/04 (0)
      Being somewhat of a purist, maybe I went a little too far calling it a "major" shortcoming. There's no doubt that both the D70 and D100 are excellent cameras, it's just that, for day-in day-out use, I'd be willing to pay the extra for the D100 (and am seriously considering making the plunge). But that's just me, and is based on decades of using Nikon F2's with glass prisms.

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