stevie_r
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Can't beat a camera with an easy to use panorama function:
Camera recommendations and advice please?
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Khamelion
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Have to say that both Cann and Nikon do good DSLR's, I've got a Canon 7D, but it's not so much the camera that produces the good photos, it's the glass you stick on the front and the person behind.
A £1,000 pound camera with all the bells an whistles doesn't necessarily gaurantee good photo's, the camera on your iPhone could do just as well.
A £1,000 pound camera with all the bells an whistles doesn't necessarily gaurantee good photo's, the camera on your iPhone could do just as well.
Coatsy79
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My wife has the entry level Nikon dslr and its brilliant, think I payed £350 for it, think you can get deals with an extra lens for £450/500
SwingsitlikeHogan
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I miss mine too - loved my Pentax ME Super that I bought late-70s. Brilliant camera.
MegaSteve
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Amazing the love old skool photographers still have for their Pentax's... Owned multi-several in my time... Only selling my black bodied spotmatic fairly recently when I was made an offer I just couldn't ignore...
Think film has had it for stills... But for movies the 'real deal' is still hanging on... Completed a couple of fairly major projects recently... With a few more bigish budget films about to start... Think my last year of work is going to be busy...
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Unfortunately the shutter on my Pentax started jamming so I bought a Canon EOS 1000FN - good enough camera but I never really took to it in the way that I loved my ME Super. It's sitting in a cupboard doing nothing and probably pretty worthless - which is a shame.
stevie_r
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I also owned an old manual Praktica, basic but robust. It was also really handy if you needed to knock some nails in and couldn't find a hammer.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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I also owned an old manual Praktica, basic but robust. It was also really handy if you needed to knock some nails in and couldn't find a hammer.
- my first SLR was a Praktica Super TL - built like a battleship
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zlinuk
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^^This^^
You might also want to look at micro 4/3rds as a possibility, most of the benefits of SLR but more compact.
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Interesting note, the above action will also release a jammed shutter on an ME Super :rofl:
To OP, seriously, take a look at Bridge cameras as an option
SwingsitlikeHogan
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And to OP - dismiss my comment about Bridge cameras as it is one I made out of ignorance - they may well be just what you are looking for - bit more flexibility and easier to use creatively than compacts - and having interchangeable lens options.
MegaSteve
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I also owned an old manual Praktica, basic but robust. It was also really handy if you needed to knock some nails in and couldn't find a hammer.
Herself has just reminded me that Nikon advertised their robustness showing Don McCullin nailing his tent pegs into the ground with a Nikon camera... One of his camera's [now in the Imperial War Museum] took a direct hit from a wayward bullet... Saving his life...
