I want to learn photography. What do I need to do in the first step? Buy a camera or a video camera?

When purchasing digital products, the specifications and parameters of products become the main basis for many consumers to compare, and digital cameras are no exception. But many parameters often confuse consumers, such as CCD, aperture, focal length, optical zoom and so on. Many consumers really don't know where to choose. In fact, the purchase of digital cameras is mainly based on sufficiency, and it is not necessary to pursue new pursuits excessively, and buy some digital cameras with flashy functions. Digital zoom is enlarged at the expense of image quality, which is of little practical use. Optical zoom is more practical. In fact, the bigger the optical zoom, the better. Although large zoom is very useful in some occasions, such as shooting wild animals, sports competitions, etc., we usually buy digital cameras to record some bits and pieces of ordinary life. Such a large zoom may not be fully utilized, so we don't have to pursue it deliberately. At present, many digital cameras also have some night vision functions, such as Sony's infrared night shooting. Digital cameras pay more and more attention to the function of shooting still pictures, but no matter to what extent, they are very different from the photos taken by digital cameras. Digital cameras can use 1/3 inch CCD, which is very large, while digital cameras are generally 1/2.3 inch, and have white balance, autofocus and image.

Before buying a camera, you should analyze your actual use, put your mind right, and choose the number of pixels that meet your needs, so as to meet your requirements, and you don't have to compare with each other on the pixel issue. If 8 million pixels can meet the demand, there is no need to buy a 9 million pixel digital camera. The money saved can be used to buy spare batteries, memory cards, tripods, camera bags and other items. For ordinary home users, 8 million pixels is enough, and too high a number of pixels is of little practical significance except wasting money. For a cinematographer who shoots general social news, 8- 1065438+ megapixels are enough to meet the needs of printing. On this basis, we can pay attention to whether the focal length of the camera lens is practical and sufficient, the response speed of the camera, the continuous shooting speed and other issues. Fever-level snake shadow friends can choose a digital camera with more than 5-8 million pixels to meet the output demand of larger size. Business users can consider buying a SLR digital camera or digital back.

Buying a digital camera is mainly to meet your actual needs, but it is also necessary to have some foresight. I have always had a view that as a movie friend, you can buy products that are slightly higher than your own requirements, especially digital products, because people's needs are growing, and you should prevent the situation that the digital camera you spent thousands of dollars on can't meet your own requirements in a few days and have to be replaced.

At present, mainstream digital cameras have the development trend of "high pixel+large zoom", and even ordinary digital cameras have 3-6 times optical zoom. The problem brought by this is that when the optical zoom reaches the maximum, the image jitter problem is often prone to occur. In order to solve this problem, many digital camera lenses also introduce optical anti-shake function, so pay attention to it when choosing. It is best to choose a digital camera equipped with an optical anti-shake lens to improve the shooting success rate. These digital cameras can easily shoot long-distance scenery, and have obvious advantages for shooting some special themes, which can basically be said to have achieved "a mirror to travel all over the world". Even if the merchant gives away the 1G memory card at random, it doesn't mean that what we get is cheap. The key still depends on the quality, price and after-sales service of the camera itself. If you choose a digital camera with a high zoom lens, you should pay attention to whether there is an optical anti-shake function.

Again, "how much money can do". When buying a digital camera, the budget must be clear.