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Bottom line? Get a good camera!!! I'm going to have WAY too much fun with this!!
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This is true also. It works both ways.te-wa wrote:there are plenty of ppl who shoot excellent pics with crappy cameras
Me too.Widowmaker wrote:Well I am looking to get a new camera.
What I am looking for is a point and shoot camera that takes great pictures in low light. Of course I am also looking for a 20+ optical zoom.
I say see Al's comment above, and read up on what HPP says about manipulation. My hiking bud and I have these conversations all the time. He swears that the newer cell phone cameras are JUST as good as many dSLR's. All about the manipulation.......he has the Samsung 4 I think - WOW o WOW do the images he took n our latest adventure look DANG good.......hence his name is now Ansel as far as I am concerned......now to get him to allow me to post those images....whole nuther battle.gummo wrote:Me too.Widowmaker wrote:Well I am looking to get a new camera.
What I am looking for is a point and shoot camera that takes great pictures in low light. Of course I am also looking for a 20+ optical zoom.
Me threegummo wrote:Widowmaker wrote:
Well I am looking to get a new camera.
What I am looking for is a point and shoot camera that takes great pictures in low light. Of course I am also looking for a 20+ optical zoom.
Me too.
or old onesKwai Chang wrote:He swears that the newer cell phone cameras are JUST as good as many dSLR's.
http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2014/06/ar ... ms-auctionAl_HikesAZ wrote:Ansel Adams' camera would be laughed at today.
Not too sure about that... Sometime your first few are the best - Then you start thinking you're a hotshot photographer that Nat Geo should swoop up, and you start over-analyzing the shot instead of just clicking. In doing so you miss some of the best scenes.Grimey wrote:“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
Me too...Let me know when you find one...I think they are pretty rare...Some people can get by if they have Noise Reduction Software in their Post Processing...I do not and it's frustrating....A lot of DSLR's don't even do that well in Low Light...Many times you have to bump up your ISO and that increases Noise...The more expensive DSLRs have managed to minimize this....Widowmaker wrote:What I am looking for is a point and shoot camera that takes great pictures in low light.
Just remember that the further out you Zoom, the more Distortion you will get, especially with Point and Shoots and it becomes even more compounded with Low Light....Widowmaker wrote:20+ optical zoom.