Want to learn photography, don't know which camera to buy?

If you shoot just for fun, buy a small digital camera for home use.

The recommended series are Canon ISUS series and Sony T series, both of which are ultra-thin.

If you want to be professional on the show, buy something digital.

Canon S5IS, SX100IS 8 megapixel 12 times optical zoom

Fuji S5600, S6500, S9500

If you want to be a journalist, you are interested in photography.

And the money is abundant, buy a SLR digital-DSLR at one time.

Optional are Canon and Nikon, among which Canon's entry SLR has 400D Nikon's D40.

D70S

The advantage of SLR is that you won't feel how good it is if you don't buy it ~ ~

You can take the time to read the following post, which is helpful to you.

Title: Long Road to Equipment Fever (Digital Edition) Author: Wildcats (Reprinted)

First, before going on the road, most people had some experience in taking pictures before buying digital cameras, or used "fool" cameras to take pictures of their families, or used old cameras at home, or borrowed SLR cameras from friends, or even had a SLR camera at home, but you have never been interested in these cameras with film, and you only use them at certain times (most of them are photos like "visiting here" when you go out to play). This is "expensive". There are various reasons to drive you to buy a digital camera. Or you see tourists using it in scenic spots, or you see beautiful advertisements on TV and magazines, or you come to an online forum about DC and see beautiful photos of others. You are immediately infected, just like you have the flu. You are beginning to wonder if I can "take" such photos, and this kind of camera with almost no post-payment is exactly what I have been looking for. It happened that your friends and relatives bought new digital cameras, and you were about to go out to play. Seeing your "grandpa" camera with film, you make up your mind to choose a digital camera for yourself.

Second, the entry DC manual with manual function Only a digital camera with manual function can meet your "creative" needs. If you have only used 135 "fool" camera, you think a digital camera that can see the effect immediately will definitely improve your photography level. You should check it before buying it. This kind of "investigation" may be to collect advertisements in every issue of digital magazines, linger in front of the counters of major shopping malls, and compare hard in forums, so that you can slowly open the door to the world of digital cameras. There are many brands and models, and you will definitely feel the vastness of the world and the shyness in your pocket. After a period of study, you finally understand that you must have a digital camera with manual function and the essential difference between digital zoom and optical zoom in order to create good works. After some painful choices, you finally made up your mind to take home the most expensive domestic or imported digital camera with manual function and optical zoom. Unconsciously, you have stepped on this feverish "point of no return"

Third, the days when you get a new machine with accessories are full. You are interested in everything around you, and record it one by one with your camera. However, after looking for various opportunities to go out and take pictures with your newly bought camera several times, you find that making a "work" with manual function is far from simple. Looking back at the works of the master in the jar, it seems that the angle of view used is either wider than your lens, longer than the focal length of your lens, or much stronger than your macro. You suddenly made a big mistake, that's all. This is another leap in the process of your fever (fever temperature rising)-you begin to pay attention to different lens angles, although all you see now is the focal length of the lens. You start to dig out all the "common" focal lengths. It's a pity that you didn't consider this when you started to buy a camera, and the price of a digital camera with wide angle, telephoto and macro function is so unattainable that you are even more worried about the lack of funds just after "blood loss". Although the desire to have a wide angle and telephoto is so urgent, you can only hide it silently in your heart. Finally, one day, you know what "wide-angle lens", "additional lens" and "close-up lens" mean. These extra shots enable you to complete your plan with limited funds. You are even proud of finding this cheap solution. After adding these lenses, after a period of time, you find that the adapter tube/ring, UV, CPL, grey mirror, camera bag, hood, tripod, mirror cleaning paper, spare battery, suede, balloon blowing, lens pen, lens cover, starlight mirror, soft mirror, flash, monopod and reflector are all necessary for a photographer who pursues photography. Sure enough, your investment was not in vain, and your photos began to be different from those of other friends on the forum. Although this may only be because of the visual impact at the wide-angle end of your lens or the amazing telephoto effect at the telephoto end or the "different" feeling brought by special filters to your photos. Everyone's recognition and praise of your work has undoubtedly added impetus to your progress.

After you have all the accessories of high-end consumer machines, you can finally be as "professional" as a photographer, or at least look so professional. Camera bags, flashlights, tripods, various filters and additional lenses will leave a deep impression on the people around you when you create, which will undoubtedly give you great psychological satisfaction. But after soaking in the forum for a while, you finally found out what is "lens quality", the importance of large aperture lens, the influence of hand shock prevention function on film output rate, and the influence of CCD area on image quality. You pay more and more attention to the gradation transition of your film, the noise in the dark, the loss of picture details, the lack of graininess and the appearance of annoying purple edges ..... You begin to realize that it may be the most immature behavior to consider only the zoom factor when buying a camera. The purple edge caused by wide angle, scattered edges and increasing distance breaks your heart, and it is more and more troublesome to disassemble and assemble the lens frequently. The lack of some functions is even more torture to you (although you may not need it at all): no hot shoes, no flash synchronization interface, no fact histogram display and no B door. ...................................................

Your film color reproduction is not good because of the bad weather, and your film looks gray because of the dust in the air, but you are increasingly dissatisfied with your entry-level digital camera. You are beginning to realize the reason why high-end digital cameras exist. The large CCD area covers a large aperture lens from wide angle to telephoto end, powerful macro close-up capability, reversible EVF or LCD, higher shutter speed and even hand shock prevention. Just because the appearance is as high as a work of art, you can safely enlarge your work to more than 12 inch (although you can't put a few in a year), but the price ... You start to scrimp and save, visit the local professional photographic equipment market frequently, look for all new products on the Internet and promote products, and make a detailed comparison of various indicators of various brands in flagship machine: CCD size, lens aperture, aperture and focal length. The shooting results show that this "high quality" camera does live up to expectations, and its performance in all aspects is almost perfect, which gives you great psychological comfort. With a high-end flagship digital camera, you can't resist your creative passion. In the next time, you won't miss any sunny day and seize every opportunity to go out and shoot. Although you will be more and more expensive than your original "low-quality" camera in 80% to 90% of the future, the difference is not obvious with such a flagship product.

Not long after, you signed up for the outdoor shooting activities organized by like-minded color friends in the forum, so unfortunate things happened ... After a short joint ceremony and simple self-introduction, people around you took out something called SLR, skillfully installed a powerful giant gun and stood up proudly. During the shooting, everyone fought bravely and the cannon cleared the way. The air is filled with the crackle of reflectors. At this time, you find that your flagship digital is so unbearable. It rattled in the dark for a long time before focusing, but it was surrounded by crisp and lively focusing sound. However, the most unbearable thing is that only when you publish your work, do you find that when model smiles at you, it presses the shutter, but it turns into an action of closing your eyes and turning your head, while others can capture expressions one by one; The foreground and background of self-shooting are equally clear, while the background of SLR is as fuzzy and beautiful as cream; When the light is bad, in order not to smear the particles and noise of the film shot by high ISO, the film shot by SLR with ISO400 is still clean and transparent ... You finally realize that you really need a digital SLR.

5. Digital SLR The idea of "buying a professional single-lens reflex digital camera" really scared you when it first came out, because it would mean that you have to spend more than twice as much money on the camera to buy the body and the random lens, and you have long known that the lens used for SLR is a bottomless pit! This goes far beyond your initial idea of buying a camera in one step. Besides, you can't make this money at once ... But now you are so poisoned that you start sleeping and dreaming about one or two models of SLR cameras every night. I often go to the photographic equipment store when shopping with my family, and climb on the counter to see the' dream lover' on the shelf, even if it is a crystal model. Every time you pick up a high-end flagship digital camera, you subconsciously regard it as a SLR camera. You'd rather have a wide and even reversible LCD viewfinder than a small window with a side shaft /EVF, so you don't hesitate to bend over and pout. However, depth of field control and shutter lag are your eternal pain. In the end, I was so miserable that I made up my mind to buy a SLR camera. Your first thought is to sell your original camera and accessories. But you didn't know until the second-hand forum that 95% of the new machine buyers you took care of can only give you 70% of the price at most, and those camera accessories you worked so hard to find can only be given away for nothing. You finally understand the exact meaning of "chicken ribs" Although you hate that the price of digital products falls too fast, and it is so difficult for buyers to bargain that you almost don't want to sell them several times because you need money too much, you still carefully package the machines and accessories you once loved and leave them to others. ......

6. Accessory 2: After you get the SLR camera and supporting lens as you wish, the rich feel, unprecedented fast and accurate focusing, almost zero shutter lag, and the crisp "beep" sound of the mirror make you feel relaxed and happy. You finally realize that this is what you really need, a camera that can give full play to your talents. You start looking for every opportunity to participate in external shooting, and the built-in counter of the camera will soon break through. However, with the increase of outdoor shooting times, you will soon find a side effect other than "high pixel/high image quality/advantage": when enjoying high-quality RAW format storage and high-speed continuous shooting for free, "full memory card" will always interrupt your creation. It seems essential to bite the bullet and store a large memory card, but it is far from enough. You need to take a hard disk picture with you when you go out to shoot. In addition, the tripod that looked familiar before is now fragile; That always spacious camera bag also allows you to consider what you don't need to bring before going out; Unprotected lens makes you realize the importance of multi-layer coated UV and original hood, and the weak internal flash also clearly tells you the necessity of an original external flash, not to mention bringing you convenient vertical racket performance, enhancing grip, and being equipped with a second battery, which will bring you endless power. You've started studying all kinds of accessories again. As the saying goes, "A good horse with a good saddle", the tripod should at least be "full of pictures", and the bag "Le Shebao" looks alive. Of course, the flash, hood, handle and cable must be original. Even UV and CPL can't afford B+W, at least they must be HMC.

With so many accessories almost at once, can you finally breathe a sigh of relief? It seems that all you have to do is calm down and shoot. After a period of time, your efforts finally paid off. Every time the amazing effect in the above picture is praised by everyone, especially "It's a SLR ..." It makes you feel proud and responsible, and constantly improve your requirements. Put more time into the study of theoretical knowledge. After all, you spend far more time reading online materials and photography magazines at home than taking your machine out. Finally, one day, you saw an article "Comparison between XXX lens and XXX lens on DSLR", and the idea that had been suppressed for a long time finally came out. Lens?

Seven, the camera is finally here. When you made up your mind to get on the digital SLR, someone warned you that getting on the SLR was only the beginning of spending money, and huge lens costs were waiting for you, although at that time you insisted that the cheapest random dog head could make a much better film than the flagship consumer, and you persuaded yourself to get on the SLR camera more than once for this reason. But now, after all, it is too convenient to enlarge and compare films with different lenses on the screen. You start to download the shooting samples of different lenses on DSLR crazily, and ask DSLR whether it is necessary to go to the professional zoom lens with constant aperture and large aperture on the professional photography forum. However, your psychological defense line was finally crushed, and you began to pay more and more attention to whether the zoom ring feels good or not. The plastic taste of the lens is not heavy and it is difficult to get into the dust. Is the appearance strong enough? Is the color of your film good? Is there a dark corner? Is the glare serious when backlighting? Is the maximum aperture imaging soft? Is the background blurred enough? ... you started the long journey of configuring the lens again: wide angle, medium focus, telephoto, macro? Fixed focus, zoom? Original factory, vice factory? Variable aperture, constant aperture? These problems that have plagued countless people for many years have begun to enrich your life. You are struggling to find the exam version in the forum and find the combination that suits you. The second-hand area of major photography forums has become a place you must go every day. When shooting, you will always think: If there is XXX lens at this time ... then you can only swallow saliva. You will often go to the photographic equipment store alone, gawk at the professional lenses on the shelves on the counter, and even audition in different stores with your own body until all the clerks glare at you ..... Finally, after going through the tortuous process of countless lenses coming in and out, you have a set of the most satisfactory lens combinations, and you can skillfully use them to deal with various themes and make films that are amazing to even the veteran. Everything seems perfect ... but new digital products are still innovating, and your pursuit of image quality is endless. The size larger than APS is 1.3x CCD, the size larger than 1.3x CCD is full SLR, and there is120,4x5 digital back ... When will this end?

8. Other things that are not listed, but may make you rush to use money, are: 1. Pocket notebook computer, after having a complete set of behemoths, you will find that it is a little far from your original intention of recording your life, so a pocket notebook computer has become the best choice; 2. Film machine, after finally can't stand the torture of the focal length coefficient of 1.x, someone will jump out and tell you "cheap SLR+reverse film effect spike 1DS", just need a "cheap" film body, all lenses can do it, so why not? 3. Manual motivation, someone must be poisonous: if you haven't played MF manual, you haven't played photography; 4. Black and white magnifying glass, which will incite you to try to control the whole process of "photography"; 5. Bottom scanning, in order to present your work to everyone, a high-quality bottom scanning is likely to be your next goal; 6. Flip the movie, slide projector .....; 7. 120 ... medium and large ...;

You can count yourself as an experienced person now, but this road is endless. Calm down and do the math. If you are not a car player, your spending on photographic equipment may be the biggest expense in your hobby. Although you are trying to control the budget, the result will affect your life more or less. Maybe you should reflect. Maybe you still have no regrets, so I wish you can be more rational, recognize the role of equipment in photography and go on step by step. You may want to give advice to movie friends who are about to go on the road or who are not deeply involved in the world. Don't buy consumer digital products. Just be a DSLR+ top professional in one step, and let friends who want to buy tripods go to Gitzo in one step, but they won't listen, just like you did at the beginning. Maybe this is the process of this fever. Remember the famous saying about photographic equipment: "The easiest way to bankrupt a person is to give him a camera."