Choosing a Camera
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and a large number of 'serious' photographers will return to the darkroom.
Some will probably claim that they have never used digital at all, ever.
You might think from the remarks above that I am a diehard supporter
of film. Nothing could be further from the truth actually I am now fully
converted to digital and loving it. I am going to make the pros and cons
a separate discussion that will be posted soon but, for now, I'll just
say that I am completely sold on digital and
do not feel that I have lost anything significant by changing.
Which brand?
This, of course, is the big question that you really want an answer to
and you know that nobody is going to give you one. If you ask anyone who
already has a camera most will support the brand of the camera they have
unless they have had some trouble with it, even then people are very forgiving.
I think the reason for this is that people think that, if they have made
the wrong choice it is because they have somehow failed, and they are
not going to admit their failure. Back in the 1980s I had a camera shop
in England and at the time a lot of people, who already owned an SLR,
were buying compact cameras 'for the wife'. They would ask me which brand
was the best and, if I didn't already know, I would discreetly try to
find out which brand of SLR they owned, then I would recommend the same
brand of compact camera. Trying to sell them another brand was like telling
them they had made a wrong choice when buying their old camera and was
likely to lose me a sale. So I'd better have a really good reason for
not recommending the Canon, Olympus, Nikon, Pentax or whatever and I didn't
have one. All of the well known brands produce similar cameras at similar
prices and, by and large, you get what you pay for.
I will stick my neck out a little bit here and say that in my humble
opinion the manufacturers who make the best film cameras the Japanese
Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Pentax, Minolta and the German Contax and Leica
seem to make the best digital cameras. I would not be too happy to put
my trust in brands whose traditional expertise is in other fields when
there are such good cameras available from the traditional
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