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What are the essential features a budget camera would need to have for an amateur photographer?
What are the essential features a budget camera would need to have for an amateur photographer?
right down to basics - a Pinhole Camera.A shutter button and some means of recording the light that fell on the sensing medium.
Wot! surely a Camera Obscuraright down to basics - a Pinhole Camera.
In the title?Guys, the OP did not state their budget
Doh!In the title?
He does ask a lot of questions. I wish he'd put his cards on the table.The OP is a student apparently trying to gauge the criteria for a cheap basic camera that would get people enthusiastic about photography using such a camera rather than their phone - I think he's angling for film-related ideas. Mine would be to look at the recent production of half-frame disposables by someone (can't remember who).
I think, obviously, that times have changed.......The OP is a student apparently trying to gauge the criteria for a cheap basic camera that would get people enthusiastic about photography using such a camera rather than their phone - I think he's angling for film-related ideas. Mine would be to look at the recent production of half-frame disposables by someone (can't remember who).
He does ask a lot of questions. I wish he'd put his cards on the table.
A hand holding it.What are the essential features a budget camera would need to have for an amateur photographer?
I wonder what the OPs reasoning was buying a Cannon 5d mark ii ? I would have thought that would have answered most of the points asked!
We can but hope...since he posted his questions, something in the answers has led to the penny dropping, which is why he’s disappeared to have a think.
I honestly believe he’s been enjoying phone photography, done a little research and bought a proper camera and can’t understand why he instantly isn’t getting better images. This used to be a common first post but that seam has diminished recently.We can but hope...
of course, the cynics amongst the group are perhaps are thinking "well, maybe he's realised we're not going to do his homework for him here" - but i'd like to think its you that's correct Phil.
Leading to questions about why phones aren’t better cameras, how can we make cameras easy to use and what’s the simplest (cheapest) usable camera.
All the answers come down to the same thing all of us already know. Cameras don’t take pictures, photographers do.
It’s also interesting that cameras going from entry level through enthusiast to professional, seem to lose a number of preset modes (sport, portrait, landscape etc) that start off as being useful for beginners, but aren‘t really used by those with more knowledge and experience who want instead to have more control over the camera’s functions.I honestly believe he’s been enjoying phone photography, done a little research and bought a proper camera and can’t understand why he instantly isn’t getting better images. This used to be a common first post but that seam has diminished recently.
Leading to questions about why phones aren’t better cameras, how can we make cameras easy to use and what’s the simplest (cheapest) usable camera.
All the answers come down to the same thing all of us already know. Cameras don’t take pictures, photographers do.
Hope he realises he has to include the forum in his citationsWe can but hope...
of course, the cynics amongst the group are perhaps are thinking "well, maybe he's realised we're not going to do his homework for him here" - but i'd like to think its you that's correct Phil.
I understand that it takes many years to master photography and your equipment. That doesn't mean that I cant start somewhere and improve. When I first picked up my camera I took some pretty average photos ( as I expected) but over the past year or so I have improved.I honestly believe he’s been enjoying phone photography, done a little research and bought a proper camera and can’t understand why he instantly isn’t getting better images. This used to be a common first post but that seam has diminished recently.
I understand that it takes many years to master photography and your equipment. That doesn't mean that I cant start somewhere and improve. When I first picked up my camera I took some pretty average photos ( as I expected) but over the past year or so I have improved.
You'll not find any criticism in my postsI understand that it takes many years to master photography and your equipment. That doesn't mean that I cant start somewhere and improve. When I first picked up my camera I took some pretty average photos ( as I expected) but over the past year or so I have improved.
BTW - nowadays it doesn't necessarily take many years, I was once mates with a guy who turned over tens of thousands from a photography business within a couple of years of picking up a camera for the first time. He was however very driven. I wouldn't suggest he was the norm, but as per my post above, it's more than possible to understand the technicalities within the first year in the internet age.I understand that it takes many years to master photography and your equipment.