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Hello! So I am an instagramer with right now 800 followers. I make collabs! I want to be an inspiration intagramer though. If you don't know the difference let me explain:
Collaber: you make funny collabs with captions and other peopls sometimes.
Inspirationist: takes photos with a clear camera and the photos are of inspiring movements. For example, making stories through photos.
I want to start taking photos with a camera and all I have now is my ipod 4 and I was wondering if anybody has any advice for choosing a camera that can zoom, take great wuality pictures rather than pixels, can enhance automatically and is under $150-$200
I've found some point and shoot cameras and zoom's that are pretty good and the point and shoot is about $130 so that price is in my range.
Please help! Thank you :)
P.S. takes good photos in dark?
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my first one was a nikon d5100 its not so cheap but is great and very easy to work with fr beginers,but for your budget i suggest you take an old camera,the make awsome photos and you can find one thats not very expensive also canon arent bad
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I'm a DSLR man (big, heavy, scary cost) but someone bought me a compact (Panasonic/Lumix DMC-FZ8 it says on the box) for 'fun' shooting (you can't sling big SLR kit in a little bag and cart it around without a reason or when you're just 'out and about' and enjoying yourself). This one packs an aspherical zoom lens by the legendary Leica and turns some amazingly nice pictures, at the fraction of the price of an all-Leica compact. Assume the deal was to get that magical name back 'out there' among new shooters? I'm sure it, or similar would be in your price-range. In good old 35mm terms it's the equivalent of about 35-400mm zoom. That's a good zoom range. Not sure what megapixels, bas as you've pointed out we shoot pictures not pixels. Unless you need big paper prints any compact you buy now will have far too many pixels for 100% screen viewing anyway. A Nikon compact that boasts nikon optics, or a canon compact is sure to be acceptable in image quality. Dark shots? Well, are we talking flash or available light? An on-camera flash will never take a shot that looks like an available-light picture taken in the dark. Flash, as you know puts a very characteristic 'signature' on the picture. The pop-up flash units on most compacts are a bit feeble in terms of power and coverage. If you're planning a lot of night-shots try and find one with a 'hot-shoe' on so you can put a bigger flashgun on it. Available-light stuff in the dark is a big ask. Find the 'ISO' setting on the camera and turn it up high, but keep in mind the quality of the image goes down as the ISO goes up, at ISO1600 and above expect 'noisy' (colours a bit washed out and a visible 'grain'). If you're seeing a shuuter speed of about 1/30 or less, it won't 'freeze' much action, and it's 'shake' comes in to play. Hard to hold it steady at slow shutter speeds. Great low available light stuff is the realm of dslr's + pro lenses. A big-aperture (lets more light in, so the shutter can run faster) zoom might weigh 2 kilos or more, is huge and costs the earth. Finally, all compacts enhance the 'raw' shot. Look through the menus and you should find colour saturation, sharpening and contrast etc have 'levels' you can adjust, or turn-off completely to tatse. As long as you get the exposure close you shouldn't need much post-processing on most shots. Just a 'crop' maybe, to remove bits of the scene you don't want 'in'. From the sound of it, your pictures are going to stand or fall on IMPACT and that's down to YOU. It's about what you point your lens at and when you pull the trigger! So don't let test-charts and techy details influence you either way. Look for something where the controls you need to change frequently are quick to get at, lowest 'power-up' delay and fastest autofocus speed your budget can get you. Like a photo-journalist would. The low-light stuff is difficult I'm afraid. An 80-200mm f2.8 like the fashion-show snappers and stuff use are four-figure money. Look for dead-spots in the action and time your shot to match them in the dark and you'll get some good stuff. But don't expect to freeze fast action without some big glass. I wish it WAS possible myself! Good luck...and enjoy your photography!
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