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Beginner For a beginner, is it better to purchase a digital or point and shoot camera?
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Jon Close |
Yes. ;-) Point & Shoots, whether film or digital, are economical and fully automatic and so are a good choice for casual picture taking. If by "beginner" you mean that you intend to progress farther to learn and exercise more control over your photographs, then you will eventually find a P&S camera's non-interchangeable lens and limited exposure capabilities too confining.
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Brendan Knell |
It depends on how much you want to pay. Because I have a 1000$ Digital SLR, and it has a fully automatic mode. Also it depends on what you want to do with it and how far you want to progress. Brendan Knell
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Diane Dupuis |
I would suggest a digital camera with the ability to go fully auto to fully manual so you can grow with it. One of the joys of digital is seeing right away how you did and having the possibility to try again. You can get a very decent digital camera for $300.
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Justin B. Renshaw |
Digital, Digital, Digital!! When just beggining you are sure to make a lot of mistakes. With digital it is easy to just erase a bad image. You never have to pay for the processing of an image you dont want.
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Kerry L. Walker |
I say film is the way to go. Buy a Leica M7, then, when you get frustrated by the fact that it is not autofocus and is not autoload, etc., just send it to me. I will take good care of it. (OK everybody, let's now ignore the film dinosaur. He's had a bad day - seen the word digital too many times.)
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Susan L. Vasquez |
LOL Kerry! Paula, I started out with a 1mp toshiba totally auto. I was so excited when I got the camera I use now. It's a Sony DSC-85 which has auto, shutter, aperature, and manual modes. It's been a really good camera to learn with. But I must admit after 4 years I can't wait to move on to an SLR.
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