What's the BEST camera?

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Chaitika;2854656; said:
I started shooting with a D70s. I'd be still shooting with it if I didn't need more megapixels in my images. The reason I wanted more megapixels was to be able to sell photos. I lost a really good opportunity because a buyer couldn't make a decent professional poster out of some pics I had taken that he really liked and wanted.

For the beginner, most entry level dslrs are fine for amateur work.

Lenses is where you will spend most money, even if you only want to become better at it. When you see spreads in Sports Illustrated of guys playing pro sports, or in nature magazines where they put up pics of eagles in flight and stuff like that, know that for the most part those pics are taken with camera bodies ranging from 5K and up and lenses that often cost 2K and very often, especially for the long zoom pics, cost upwards of 10K.

Why so expensive? Most pro level equipment needs to be built so that it will not fail. Camera gear is so precision-tuned, the only way to ensure it lasts is to use the best materials to construct and hold them together with. Titanium is what the better camera body frames are made with.

An amateur can get away with stuff that is much cheaper, but don't kid yourself into thinking it's a cheap hobby. It isn't.
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Okay, so let's say I want to take really good pictures but don't really need to sell them. I guess I could if someone wanted to buy them "as is", but it wouldn't be my career. And by really good pictures I mean the kind of pictures that win POTY (like yours, that was an awesome picture). Are you saying I don't need to go all the way up to a D300? The point is a while ago I bought a CHEAP digital camera and the pictures are HORRIBLE. I want something good.

PS: Couldn't you just have enlarged the image with Illustrator? Illustrator enlarges and shrinks pictures mathematically, so there isn't any distortion no matter how big you go (at least that's what I was told).
 
Juxtaroberto;2863591; said:
Okay, so let's say I want to take really good pictures but don't really need to sell them. I guess I could if someone wanted to buy them "as is", but it wouldn't be my career. And by really good pictures I mean the kind of pictures that win POTY (like yours, that was an awesome picture). Are you saying I don't need to go all the way up to a D300? The point is a while ago I bought a CHEAP digital camera and the pictures are HORRIBLE. I want something good.

PS: Couldn't you just have enlarged the image with Illustrator? Illustrator enlarges and shrinks pictures mathematically, so there isn't any distortion no matter how big you go (at least that's what I was told).
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it's not only the camera, or camera setup. it's the photographer who knows how to use it correctly, there's plenty of rich guys with 15 thousand dallor setups that are outdone be people with $500 setups because the later person took the time to find out how to use the setup correctly, no matter how good a body or lens you buy, you have to know how to use it. Pro bodies is not where anyone should start.

I hear HB's are great, but all i see is a sensor jam packed with 50 Mp's and a price tag over what that's worth, can't know till you try one i guess.
 
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