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sorry, if its not in the right category.
i'm getting a new camera for christmas.
but i don't know which i should get.
i want to be a photographer, you know, THOSE types of cameras.
it has to be digital, and have MORE than 5.1 megapixels.
it has to have that thing with really sharp pictures, even if your moving.
and the anti-bump thing. [sorry, i don't know the names of these things]
i'd like it to have the black and white picture thing, but that doesn't really matter.
um. i DO NOT want it to have any attachments. except, you know, the charger, memory card, batteries, usb thing, etc.
so... any suggestions?
it'd help if you had experience with that camera. (link)
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I'm not really sure what you mean by "attachments", but it sounds like you're looking for a Digital SLR (the type where you have a large lens that you change out for different lenses). I worked at Best Buy for a while in the cameras dept, I would recommend any of the Canon Digital SLRs (like the Digital Rebels). Nikon also makes a nice digital SLR. If you're just beginning in photography, a digital SLR might be more $$ and more functionality than you're actually looking for. In that case, you could look for a Canon Powershot - it is a good sized camera with lots of options but doesn't have the removable lens.
Most digital cameras for sale these days have a black & white option. Anti-bump = image stabilization, and I think thats pretty standard on the higher end cameras (which is what you'd be looking at). To test that, take a picture in image stabilization mode while you're actually shaking the camera slightly, and check out how it looks.
As a heads up, you'll definitely need to buy a memory card with the camera, most come standard with a 16 or 32 mb card, which definitely isn't enough to hold all your pics, especially if you're looking at 5.1 megapixels and up.
Also, all the cameras I recommended use lithium batteries (like a cell phone battery). This is something you definitely want, double As give you ~5 minutes of continuous shooting (if you just kept clicking the button until the camera died) while lithiums give you about an hour.
The best thing you can do is go into a store & handle the cameras & take some test shots. A lot times people would come in thinking they wanted the smallest camera possible, but then when they actually handled it realized it was too small for them to actually manipulate.
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