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Sweetie, it depends on your definition of good.
I've got 2 P&S's and my DSLR. Call some of us "picture snobs" if you will, but I agree with Mudpuppy. I carry a P&S everywhere and have been so underwhelmed by the shots I've tried to get on the spur of the moment, I will probably never buy another. A good bit of the time I do carry the DSLR everywhere if I know I may have a chance to get a good shot. But look at it this way, when I go to the track with buddies to get some amateur shots, I will take 100 or more pics to get 1 really good one. And I'm still not usually happy with it. By the time a full day has passed I'll have taken more than 1000 shots. When I go hiking or 4wheeling I take the DSLR, because I never know when I'm going to get the PERFECT shot. And I'll take 20 different shots of the exact same thing to get it juuuuuust right. Your average person isn't going to do that. Especially with a P&S. We camera nuts are exactly that, NUTS. ![]() Why don't you just agree to disagree? |
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Taking your DSLR on trips and hikes is one thing........That's a no-brainer. But I don't see people carrying an SLR when they are out hanging with friends or shopping or whatever. That's what a P&S or cellphone is for.
There is such a wide range of camera quality anyway. That being the case, it's entirely possible that the best P&S takes better pictures than the worst DSLR. And in order to find that camera, people need to take the time to do some research, by looking at sites & publications that know how to test cameras........ Instead of asking on random message boards or buying whatever Best Buy happens to have on special and then not being happy with it and saying that all P&S suck because of it. Just MO at least.......as always ![]() Last edited by Homeslice; 12-02-2010 at 10:21 PM.. |
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DSLR's ROCK! I got a Sony a230 for Christmas last year, and a Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 lense with macro as an early B-day gift yesterday...OMFG the pics are awesome...yeah, you gotta put some distance between you and the subject, but you can see every detail in crisp clarity...you can get lenses for shooting close up if you want and you can use it for other stuff too. I am about to branch into photography, as my friends are bugging the shit out of me to do pics for them...thus the new lense and lighting/backdrop shopping
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http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10...olypenepl1.asp http://forums.dpreview.com/previews/panasonicdmcgf2/ ... and Samsung released their NX100; you get DSLR quality shots, from a camera that isn't much larger than a compact. http://forums.dpreview.com/previews/samsungnx100/ I've seen professional landscape shots taken with a P&S camera, but they are decidedly in the minority. The best photographer can squeeze more performance out of any tool that he uses than the average person, but there's an ultimate limit to what a budget tool can produce. Put Rossi on a Honda Cub and me on a ZX-6R, and I bet I'll beat him on a lap around Barber.
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Of course the flipside of this is the old standard line:
"That's an excellent picture! You must have a very good camera." "This meal is delicious! You must have a very good stove."
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Yea but really....with a good DSLR flash combo, all on auto....you can't really take a "bad" picture, as far as exposure and such goes. The latest line of cameras is amazing.
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![]() Something as simple as knowing you need an accessory flash, and how to set it appropriately, is specialized knowledge that the average user doesn't necessarily have.
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