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Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2008 21:57:00 No.294803 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>294844

Hey /p/.

I'm trying to get into photography, amateur style. I'm broke and not too keen on carrying lots of lenses on me at all times, which Is why I've been looking for a Superzoom.

I've been thinking one of the Lumix FZ-28/18/8, or the Fujifilm 8100fd. There was also a Kodak easyshare I liked but I cant remember the name right now...

Anyways: Reccomend me a good Superzoom for someone who wants a cheap, easy to carry camera.

Hard mode: Dont tell me to get a cheap DSLR.

Super Hard Mode: Dont tell me to get a Sony Alpha.

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else !L6xabslN96 Sun 16 Nov 2008 22:11:00 No.294808 Report

Quoted By: >>294811

>>294806
if he's too cheap for a DSLR, he's probably too cheap to develop film all the time.

unfortunately, i don't think i can help you as i have never owned a prosumer camera. what sort of photography are you interested in?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2008 22:21:00 No.294811 Report

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>>294808

Prosumer?

Mostly landscape photography. For those times when I'm trekking and see something nice. At the same time, having a good macro (as the Lumix promise) is also extremeley useful. Mostly for natural/landscape photography, but I want a good all around camera. I guess you could say I'm looking for a Point and Shoot with some more Zooming/Macro power, and some more control on the camera settings.

I HAVE a Film SLR, I got it a few months back, it was my dads. I tried using it, but for some reason when I went to have the film revealed it was empy. No idea why... A few shots seemed like they had started to form, but the rest was empty. It was really weird.

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Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s Sun 16 Nov 2008 22:30:00 No.294813 Report

Quoted By: >>294814

A200

Why spend more money on a prosumer super zoom when you can get a real SLR?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2008 22:36:00 No.294814 Report

Quoted By: >>294816

>>294813

Becouse I dont WANT an SLR. It's not what I'm looking for. If you're going to spend 50$ in beer and pizza, why not spend 80$ for a meal in a nice restaurant? The food is better! But it's not what you wanted.

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Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s Sun 16 Nov 2008 22:41:00 No.294816 Report

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>>294814
not even if i spent that $80 in a resturant that serves beer and pizza?

Buy a fucking powershot then, you clearly have no interest in taking good photos but just want to appear pro to your cumbucket.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2008 23:17:00 No.294843 Report

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>>294842

Yes. Your point is?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2008 23:22:00 No.294844 Report

Quoted By: >>294845

>>294803
>I've been thinking one of the Lumix FZ-28/18/8, or the Fujifilm 8100fd.
OP image quality related.

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SAGE Sun 16 Nov 2008 23:26:00 No.294845 Report

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>>294844

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Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s Sun 16 Nov 2008 23:34:00 No.294848 Report

Quoted By: >>294852

>just dont want to be limited
Really?

Buy a D40 and an 18-200, just as much versatility as a superzoom but with more features and upgradability (you will want too). That (and the a200) are both cheap easy to carry cameras.

Car analogy

I want a car that goes really really fast but i wont have anything other than an N/A 4banger because TTV8s are too noisy.

Yeah. Right.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2008 23:40:00 No.294852 Report

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>>294848

I dont want a car that goes very fast. I want something with a good speed to take me where I'm going to and back in a comfortable enough manner. I dont want a camera where I can make out the individual hairs of every person in the picture, I dont want a camera that makes things look even more nitid than in real life. I just want something small, easy to carry, with which to take pictures with a greater zoom and control than a Point and shoot.

I made my point, I asked, I think I got what I was going to get. You obviously missed it, not that It matters much. Good bye now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 Nov 2008 23:50:00 No.294856 Report

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The FZ8 is all around the best you mentioned; however, with any Panasonic camera you're going to have to process the raws yourself because the JPEG output is shit. Otherwise them and Ricoh are the best companies for high-end small sensored cameras.

>I just dont want to be limited by having to carry several distinct lenses and other equipment

I use one as my main camera since I, too, don't like SLRs. However, if you don't want an SLR just because you feel you'll be limited, TBH I just have a superzoom for the handling. I almost never take it past 14.5mm (90mm equivalent) for general shooting, and even if I do go into the far tele range, it's usually either just to play around or not past ~300mm equivalent at the very most. Focal lengths in a reasonable range aren't a limitation to 99% of photography. If the FZ8 just went to that 14.5mm thing I wouldn't miss the extra tele range most of the time, and if it went to ~200mm equivalent I can say I almost never would.

So easily an 18-200 would do you, but honestly a 28 or 35 on a 1.5x DSLR and then a fifty (both will fit in your pockets if they're not some exotic variation on the theme) would work for almost everything you could think of. So if lenses are you hangup about a DSLR, don't worry. If it's some genuine dislike to SLRs themselves like in my case, go for the FZ8.

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