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emcee Red Super Koopa                  Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| I've thinking of picking up photography, you know, for the artistic value. I've been looking on ebay, and I see alot of these 12MP, 2.5 LCD SVP digital cameras. They seem to be going for about 125 bucks, plus 25 or so shipping. Sounds like a pretty good deal at first, but reading further I realized its only 5MP, the other 7 million pixels are created through interpolation, in other words it just digitally expands the image with a simple algorithm to keep from looking too pixelated, rather than actually taking in that much data. Well, I don't want that, I don't want big images, I want detailed images, if I want to make them bigger I can expand them myself, probably using a better algorithm than that camera.
So does anyone have experience buying digital cameras? What's the best brands? The best models? What's the highest actual pixel count I can get at a reasonable price, like under $300? |
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Tarale    2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata   Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 5907 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| One thing that I think really needs to be looked at when you look at cameras is optical zoom. Frankly, as far as megapixels go, my camera (3 megapixels) is fine for me, but the optical zoom is something I always want more of or better.... and I'm not sure, but it will be your optical zoom that I think a lot of your clarity and detail will come from.
Just my opinion, but I find "megapixels" to be somewhat overrated or at least overhyped in comparison to good old fashioned optical zoom. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 5908 days Last view: 5907 days |
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| That's a good point, I saw alot of cameras claiming like 40x zoom, but its actually like 4x optical zoom with 10x digital. To me digital zoom doesn't count as zoom at all, I can take picture and crop and zoom whatever I want, I don't need the camera doing it for me, especially if its going to look like crap either way.
But I also saw some with pretty high optical zoom, up to 10x, but they were also very expensive, most over $1000, if I was going to spend a grand on something it wouldn't be a camera. I don't understand why optical zoom is so expensive, I can buy a pair of 10x binoculars for like $30, why it so expensive to put that same lens on a camera? Do you know of any fairly inexpensive models with a high optical zoom? Is it possible to buy the lens seperately? I still like the idea of high megapixels, as long as they're actual pixels. It seems like it would be nice to create a high detail stock image to create all different size images from without ever needing to expand it to larger than the original. I guess even for this 12MP is a little excessive, but I would like it to be rather high, atleast if I'm going to spend more than $150 on it. Another thing I was thinking about is battery life. Is this a big issue? How many photos should I expect to get out a single charge of standard alkaline batteries? How much will a large LCD reduce battery life? Are the ones with a built-in or proprietary batteries better? Another thing I noticed looking at picture created with a friend's 4MP camera was it seemed to have very bad compression artifacts, reguardless of the quality settings. If you zoom in there's alot of specs of different colors, and in some cases its noticable without zooming in. Is there any rating or number I should look for on a camera's spec that gives the level of compression used? I know I've seen plenty of jpeg photos without any noticable artifacts, and I'd perfer that even if the filesizes are larger. Also, and I know this is longshot, but are there any cameras that create photos in a format other jpeg, like for instance png, or even 24-bit bmp? Really, all I want is a camera that creates large crystal clear photos at a reasonable price. |
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