Camera shutter speed

[rack'm]

It took me and HS TWO HOURS to figure out how to take pictures of outside christmas lights saturday! I'll have to post of the pictures tonight.

It sounds like you have a job ahead of you.....learning your new toy.

 

[Jameo]

It sounds like you have a job ahead of you.....learning your new toy.

Ya think?

 

[rack'm]

Ya think?

It's just a rumor.

I didn't get to shoot anything this weekend, pictures or otherwise.

 

[aps45819]

It took me and HS TWO HOURS to figure out how to take pictures of outside christmas lights saturday! I'll have to post some of the pictures tonight.

Tell him to grab a copy of the rate manual for photographers mate 3&2. It's a good instruction manual on using a camera.

 

[HollowSoul]

It took me and HS TWO HOURS to figure out how to take pictures of outside christmas lights saturday! I'll have to post some of the pictures tonight.

nooooo......it took HS two hours to figure it out.......you gave up on it and decided to wait to read to book

 

[Jameo]

Tell him to grab a copy of the rate manual for photographers mate 3&2. It's a good instruction manual on using a camera.

I have the Photography for Dummies book. Lots of great info in there

 

[ylexot]

The problem with most digitals is not the shutter speed but the focus speed. With the SLRs you're doing the focusing prior to hitting the shutter release, but you're talking in the $1000 price range and you're back to the big bulky cameras. Most folks don't want to spend the time to learn how to use a SLR and that's why the point-and-shoot cameras became popular.

Most digital cameras focus when you press the shutter release button half-way...SLR or not. It just works better that way. The lag is the camera switching modes and flushing the buffer on the sensor. SLRs have "easy" modes too, but they give you the ability to learn more if you want. As for price, Canon Rebel XT can be had ~$6-700 with a lens. The older Rebel (what I have) can be had for ~$4-500 with a lens.

Also, you need to think about what your print-outs are going to be. For 5x7's, 3-4MP is fine. For 8x10's, you'll want ~8MP (but my 6.3MP seems to print them just fine).

The biggest advantage for SLRs is the sensor size...the typical SLR sensor (known as APS-C size) is ~4x the size of the typical non-SLR sensor. That translates into better low-light performance (higher ISO ranges). Typically, non-SLR digitals have ISO ranges up to 400 and the images are so-so at best at that setting. Many SLRs go up to 1600 or even 3200, but the images are great at 400 and start to degrade at 800.