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Unless it's a professional class digital camera costing over $1,000.00 most of the rest, especially the so-called 'point and shoot' costing less the $500 are nothing more then cheap plastic toys. Canon is particulary to blame here. It you read the digital camera reviews and even dpreview.com, they are always on top of the heap. But just look and feel a real Canon, nearly all have that cheap plastic toy feel to them. Maybe the only acception is their Powershot S models, which appear solid and substantial. The one ecception is the Powershot S1is, which really has a cheap look and feel to it. All their highly praised G models feel like cheap plastic crap.
Here I am, looking for a very compact, pocket point-and-shoot camera. I read the reviews and there is always something unecceptable about them. It's very discouraging if you are in the market for a new digital camera. There isn't a single one that has turned me on where I want to plunk down $300 -$500 for one.
My son-in-law, who is a professional photographer probably said it best: 'Digital cameras just haven't fully developed and matured yet'.
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These complaints have nothing to do with digital. Under $500 film cameras are also plastic. That aside, there is no real problem with that. I'm on my second point and shoot digital, and I have never had any problem from the plastic construction. My first, a Fuji 6200, gives great images, and is easy to use. It was dropped a few times, and now has a few scratches on the plastic body here and there, but it still works fine. I gave it to my 7 year old son, who has a great time shooting anything he can with it.
Plastic means we CAN buy them for under $500. Its now a plastic world, you just need to get used to it. If you want heavy metal, you will need to pay more.
'Digital cameras just haven't fully developed and matured yet'.Yeah, that's why 99% of the wedding photographers have switched to digital, most every catalog is produced using digital cameras (direct to press), Sports Illustrated is 100% digital, nearly every newspaper has switched to digital...shall I continue?
Your son in-law may be a "professional photographer" but his thoughts that digital hasn't matured (at least to the point of being totally usable for commercial work) couldn't be more wrong.
The true last stronghold for film in professional work is for architectural photography. The problem with digital in that usage is handling multiple light sources. While you can do it with a digital back on a view camera, you end up making multiple images and then spending an inordinate amount of time in PS putting the images together.
With film, you can shoot Polaroids to get light balance (filtration, exposures, etc.) and then shoot the final image with multiple exposures. If you can get it to look good on Polaroid, the image looks 200% better on film. Ten to 30 minutes to shoot one image is a whole lot better than spending 1-2 hours in PS combining images.
I've also done several shots on location with only a single strobe and up to 60 individual exposures - something difficult if not impossible to do with digital.
But the idea that digital hasn't reached the point of being "fully developed" enough for at least 95% of commercial work is laughable.
the point appears to be lost on you.The issue is not that digital isn't useable, it's that the market is a mess with everybody scrambling over each other with features and gizmos and design, and what we're left with is a mass of half efforts since the product will be so different in 6 months, never mind by the time the product doesn't work anymore, so that anything not made (i was going to say "marketed" but that would be incorrect) as a professional tool is cheap to the point of being disposable, and only isn't because it's full of electronics.
the bloody EOS rebel is a plastic shmuckity schmuck and costs over a thousand dollars.
it doesn't have to be forged titanium or even cast magnesium. When digital cameras are really a mature technology they won't be so disposable anymore.-planned obsolescence, the bane of modern life.
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