What Type of Camera you use

[lourensb]

Hi There, I'm just curious about the Forum Users Camera's

Please Give some feedback about your Setup ?

[Ian]

Re: What Type of Camera you use

Hi There, I'm just curious about the Forum Users Camera's

Please Give some feedback about your Setup ?

Haha! I'm the odd one out here as I get to use different cameras all the time

In general though, I try to carry a compact with me as often as possible. I'm currently using a Nokia N93 camera phone (3MP and a real 3x optical zoom lens) as well.

My preference is to use a DSLR and the one I have been using the most this year has been an Olympus E-330 because of its live view functionality. I've also been using a Sony Alpha A100 quite a lot and I have long term use of an Olympys E-400 as well, which is being tested at the moment. It's so light and compact it sometimes comes with me in preference to a compact.

For the Olympus gear I have lenses from 22mm (35mm equivalent) through to 400mm at the moment. I'm just about to get a 75-300 zoom for the Sony Alpha, which equates to 112-450mm.

I still have a Canon EOS-100 film SLR and a 28-80 kit lens and use this for film/digital comparison purposes mainly.

Ian

[bigbob]

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I use a Nikon D2X and Fuji S3 .

B..

[Archangel]

Re: What Type of Camera you use

Hi There, I'm just curious about the Forum Users Camera's

Please Give some feedback about your Setup ?

Hi lourensb,

I entered the digital world by having 2 DSLRs. After sometime, I was tired and bored to carry bags and different size lenses and many times I missed telephoto shots. By the time I was changing lenses the bird had flew. One DSLR was ruined in a motorbike accident. With the other I used to get sometimes wrong hues. I ended up, throwing the ruined one in the garbage and selling the other one.

Instanty I bought a compact (Coolpix 7900), which I always carry on my belt (because you will never know when needed to capture a shot, even in everyday life) and a medium size 12X Superzoom (Panasonic FZ5) which I take with me on my weekend walks and trips.

Now, I'm more happy than I was before when I had the 2 DSLRs. I don't carry bags (the superzoom is small and fits in a much smaller bag around my belt), I don't carry and don't change lenses and very rare I miss a shot, mostly because I was looking somewhere else or because I didn't have the camera powered on.

Of course I lost a little in quality in comparison to a DSLR, (though the imaging software takes mostly care of that making the the difference in quality between a DSLR and a normal superzoom look unoticable) but at least I don't miss shots and don't carry bag-packs with lenses with me.

Though, I do intend to buy a new DSLR, but that would be only one and preferably a superzoom one, so I will not to have to carry suitcases of lenses ever again in my life.

Bottom line: I will always have a normal size compact for everyday use (not those slim line compacts) and a superzoom (normal or DSLR).



Regards


George

[rogleale]

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I agree with George completely. I used Nikons for 42 years, starting with a Nikkorex in 1964, passing through the range up to the F3, then into digital with a DSC 5400, then to a D70.
I do a lot of walking, and like George, found the bag of lenses to be a real pain, and that the lens fitted was usually the wrong one!
Sold all my Nikon gear, and bought a Lumix FZ50, and find it just right for my needs. Although I will never get to love the EVF, the lightness, and always having the right lens on, has put a lot of pleasure back into my photography. I shoot in raw+jpeg and I am often surprised by the quality of the jpeg's that the camera produces which reduces the need for raw processing.
Noise doesn't bother me, I can produce up to A3+ prints using Qimage, and I feel that the level of noise produced by the camera is rarely a problem for any except pixel peepers. In fact, I have asked several people, not over keen photographers, what they thought of the noise in a picture where it was visible in the sky, and the answers ranged from, "No worse than film grain" to "What noise? I didn't hear anything!"

Roger

[jtfrazer]

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Hi,

I use Olympus gear. I have a C-770 "compact digital" and an E-500 DLSR with the two lens kit. Each of the cameras has its advantages.

Jim

[Archangel]

Re: What Type of Camera you use

I agree with George completely. I used Nikons for 42 years, starting with a Nikkorex in 1964, passing through the range up to the F3, then into digital with a DSC 5400, then to a D70.
I do a lot of walking, and like George, found the bag of lenses to be a real pain, and that the lens fitted was usually the wrong one!
Sold all my Nikon gear, and bought a Lumix FZ50, and find it just right for my needs. Although I will never get to love the EVF, the lightness, and always having the right lens on, has put a lot of pleasure back into my photography. I shoot in raw+jpeg and I am often surprised by the quality of the jpeg's that the camera produces which reduces the need for raw processing.
Noise doesn't bother me, I can produce up to A3+ prints using Qimage, and I feel that the level of noise produced by the camera is rarely a problem for any except pixel peepers. In fact, I have asked several people, not over keen photographers, what they thought of the noise in a picture where it was visible in the sky, and the answers ranged from, "No worse than film grain" to "What noise? I didn't hear anything!"

Roger

Hi Roger,

I also agree with you too and personally noise is not an issue to me since the camera is no worse than the rest of the competition and since I can take it off pretty much perfectly with Noise Ninja.
Not to mention the amazing feeling of being able to run, to squeeze in a bus, to sit in the car, to go out with friends, to walk around, to sit in a cafeterias, without all these bags bouncing on you all the time, make you uncomfortable a careful to death not to break anything.


Regards


George

[Ian]

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As Olympus (E-400) and Nikon (D40) have recently demonstrated, there is no need for a DSLR to be big and heavy. The E-400, with its two ultra compact and light kit lenses is a very strong alternative to a superzoom and covers 28-300mm. You could also fit another compact superzoom lens, like the Zuiko Digital 18-180 (36-360 equiv).

Ian

[Archangel]

Re: What Type of Camera you use

As Olympus (E-400) and Nikon (D40) have recently demonstrated, there is no need for a DSLR to be big and heavy. The E-400, with its two ultra compact and light kit lenses is a very strong alternative to a superzoom and covers 28-300mm. You could also fit another compact superzoom lens, like the Zuiko Digital 18-180 (36-360 equiv).

Ian

Hi Ian,

That is also why I previously wrote:
""Though, I do intend to buy a new DSLR, but that would be only one and preferably a superzoom one, so I will not to have to carry suitcases of lenses ever again in my life"".


Regards


George

[Stephen]

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Canon man, gear listed in profile

[Scatty]

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I use a Casio EX-Z1000. I am new to photography but find this camera really nice to use. I like the big screen at the back. It is simple to use, but am still working out how to use all the icons on it. But with practise I am sure it will come.

[lumix]

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I use the name LUMIX and that's also what I use. A Panasonic Lumix FZ20. In the passed I have used all kinds of cameras, too many to list here but now retired and wise enough not to be bogged down with truck loads of gear, the FZ20 dose all I need. Got it secondhand very cheap so don't have to worry too much about insurance etc. As far as performance I would find it hard to fault. To me it's an ever ready no hassle camera just a bit to big to put in you pocket, but I love it.

[Bearface]

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Like Stephen, I use Canon. Initially a 1Ds, now a 1D MkII and a 5D along with a nice collection of prime and zoom lenses and a 580EX flashgun. I don't own a compact, but whenever I handle or use one, I find them slow to react and a little fiddly. It's obvious that many people get great results from them, but I prefer my big, hefty dSLRs

[Pol]

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I have a Nikon Coolpix 775 compact that I rarely see - because our second son 'borrowed' it.

I also have a Canon G3 prosumer that I use occasionally, when I want something small, light and easy to carry.

My favourite, most frequently used camera is my Pentax *istD. I have lenses ranging from 18mm to 500mm ... some of them Pentax lenses, one Tamron and one Sigma. Photography is my hobby so if I really, really fancy something and I can afford it - I save for it then I buy it.

My husband "has a camera for every day of the week" (according to Stephen). That's not quite true actually - he probably has one for every day of the month - though he has always assured me he never bought anything that cost more than "about a tenner from the bargain bin" -- and I was born yesterday


Pol

[Pops]

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Canon 400d.
At the moment my main lens is the canon 70-300 IS USM