Recommend a good digital camera to me!
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Originally posted by kopiosatu:
actually you're just looking for a point and shoot
get a lumix or exlim lah, save the trouble
pick the one where u like the design the most
What models would you recommend...? How good are they...?
One of my greatest regrets later might be when I try to shoot a scenery I REALLY LIKE but the effects just doesn't take off.... Then I'll be like thinking that I've been wasting my $.....?
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Originally posted by Devil1976:
But see.. I would like to have a point and shoot at a reasonable price... But some of the scenery I like often involves dim or special light effects... Which I often have a problem trying to capture its effect with most normal camera....?
Which is precisely why I recommended the G10 instead of the SX1 IS or any of the Lumix or Exilim lines.
The G-series (with the exception of the G7) is one of the few point-and-shoot series that takes RAW shots instead of just JPEG. In RAW, you can set your camera's exposure compensation to -2 and later recover the data during post-processing. Try doing that in JPEG and you'll get an inferior result because of the image data compression.
I take all of my shots in RAW, and if you look at the European photos I've posted in this forum in the past few days, I'd say a good 20% of the shots would have been unusable if I'd shot them in JPEG.
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i was about to recommend 1000D again...
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Fuji Finepix F31fd takes good pics in low lights (no need flash)
but now replaced by F50fd oredi
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i've never had any problems is point and shoot cameras when it came to scenary or general daytime photography
its just the night shoots where i need a flash that gives me problems
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I used to buy Fujiflim but now change to Nikon
go for optical zoom instead of digital zoom
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Originally posted by kopiosatu:
i've never had any problems is point and shoot cameras when it came to scenary or general daytime photography
its just the night shoots where i need a flash that gives me problems
Well, kopi, you would know that the sensors on compacts are pretty much useless when it comes to low light. As it is, crop sensors have enough of a challenge in those conditions - all you'd get is noise with a 1.7" CCD.
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Well, kopi, you would know that the sensors on compacts are pretty much useless when it comes to low light. As it is, crop sensors have enough of a challenge in those conditions - all you'd get is noise with a 1.7" CCD.
yeah i know, i was referring to devil's post on taking photos on scenary.
so if its day scenary then a PnS will do just fine
but when it comes to night, it just doesn't beat a hotshoe flash for regular shots
any PnS you buy, even a DSLR with the onboard flash, will never be nice
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Originally posted by kopiosatu:
yeah i know, i was referring to devil's post on taking photos on scenary.
so if its day scenary then a PnS will do just fine
but when it comes to night, it just doesn't beat a hotshoe flash for regular shots
any PnS you buy, even a DSLR with the onboard flash, will never be nice
Amen, brutha. For night shots indoor, I use a 430EX with a lambency diffuser. It looks funny but it works damned well, especially when you don't have a light surface to bounce off.
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i'm using the lightsphere, got it about 4yrs back
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Sama sama! Damned if it doesn't look like a small salad bowl, though.
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i usually have to tell people its a toilet bowl. feel free to puke in it.
then again, i haven't been shooting events for a quite a while, even the recent ones i just snap on the omnibounce and just shoot... to save battery power. hahahahaha~
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do u have the cap? that's pretty useful when u have no ceiling to bounce it off.
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On another forum, one guy said he was using his diffuser, and some four year old boy asked his mother, "Mommy, why's that man got a breast pump stuck to his camera?".
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wtf
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Originally posted by kopiosatu:
do u have the cap? that's pretty useful when u have no ceiling to bounce it off.
I got four caps with mine: white, pale yellow, strong yellow and blue. The white works best.
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wah! did it come free or did u bother to get them all?
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Originally posted by kopiosatu:
wah! did it come free or did u bother to get them all?
It all came in one set - got it off some eBay seller in Hong Kong.
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fwah! good deal!
but the funny thing is, no one really uses all
its easier to change temperature in photoshop than doing it manually
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Yeah, Canon's DPP makes changing white balance ridiculously easy.
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mai hao lian lah
we are lay people heresome pics including night shots i took with my Fuji Finepix F31fd:-
http://sgforums.com/forums/1902/topics/296888
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Double post.
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Kong simi hao lian?
If this was chit chat, I would go with the "lay person" excuse. This is supposed to be a photography forum.
Taking a look at the night view and the tunnel shots from the Shanghai thread, it's easy to see how the noise control has gone so far overboard that it's made the photos blurry. In your night night shot below you can't even see what the neon sign says.
Here's a night shot of Hong Kong for contrast:
Look at the third building from the left and you can read both "LIPPO" signs that are much smaller than the riverside one in your pic. Even a glance at both photos shows how blurry yours is.
If Fuji had come up with a magical JPEG shooter that can handle night shots, nobody would be making any cameras that shoot RAW. You're entitled to your opinion, but please don't try telling me what a good night shot is, talking about being hao lian and dispensing outright bad advice.
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Which is precisely why I recommended the G10 instead of the SX1 IS or any of the Lumix or Exilim lines.
The G-series (with the exception of the G7) is one of the few point-and-shoot series that takes RAW shots instead of just JPEG. In RAW, you can set your camera's exposure compensation to -2 and later recover the data during post-processing. Try doing that in JPEG and you'll get an inferior result because of the image data compression.
I take all of my shots in RAW, and if you look at the European photos I've posted in this forum in the past few days, I'd say a good 20% of the shots would have been unusable if I'd shot them in JPEG.
Shucks... Pardon me but I'm really quite 'young' and amateur at this... All I wanted at 1st was a camera which I can take of some of the beautiful scenes which happens in my life and post them up in a blog or something... Yet, at the same time I hope not to have them compensated with a 'feel' which is really not the same because of my camera's capacity... Hope you can understand....?
By the way, I'm also VERY RAW to post-processings and such....
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Originally posted by SBS7484P:
i was about to recommend 1000D again...
So what does it have....?