What a difference a camera makes... - Lateral-g Forums

BC69 · #1 03-23-2008, 06:10 PM

I know my car isn't pro-touring, but I thought you might like to see the difference in a new camera. My brother just got a digital SLR. I will get the details, but here are a few shots, at the same location but with my regular 6 pixel digital and his SLR. It might make you think about a new camera.

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Tim

**XcYZ** · #2 03-23-2008, 08:13 PM

Nice! I'd love to get a digital SLR...

awr68 · #3 03-23-2008, 08:28 PM

Yep, I borrowed my neighbors SLR to take some pics for Rupp last spring...next thing I know my wife bought me one! I guess I got my point across of how much nicer it was than our digi camera!

Also, she wanted one since we had been missing a lot of action shots of our son with the 'delay' of our old camera...the SLR kicks ass!

Nice pics and car BTW!!!

fesler · #4 03-23-2008, 08:30 PM

Digital SLR is the only way to go, I use to shoot with film back in the day for all the magazines and when digital SLR came out I was all over it and saved over $500 a month on film. Now I use Canon Mark III very high end but you get very cool stuff from it. Everything we shoot now is digital and all the covers for the mags we shoot are digital so the quality is there if you have a nice camera.

Bowtieracing · #5 03-24-2008, 04:15 AM

And for the dummys..what is the digital SLR ?

**XcYZ** · #6 03-24-2008, 05:19 AM

Single Lens Reflex.

Fluid Power · #7 03-24-2008, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Bowtieracing

And for the dummys..what is the digital SLR ?

You have seen all those big cameras at car shows with big inter-changeable lenses? That is a SLR camera.

Darren

rwhite692 · #8 03-24-2008, 10:26 AM

I upgraded to a Canon 10.6MP digital SLR when our daughter was about a year old, and one of the main reasons was because with my older point-and-shoot digital camera, the time between shots was almost a whole second, and it seemed like every time she'd do something really neat, I'd miss it.

The new SLR can blitz through a whole bunch of shots, and I almost always get a good one. One thing to make sure is that you buy the fastest memory card that you can afford, because this will (on some cameras) affect your ability to take a lot of shots very quickly before the card has to "catch up". I also bought a 75-300 lens with Image Stabilization and wow, what a help that has been for outdoor pics. I still have a lot to learn...

Rellim51 · #9 03-24-2008, 04:02 PM

I got a Nikon D200 last year. I get tired of carrying it at car shows so I bought a little Nikon S600 to carry in my pocket. Though the MP rating is about the same the 200 takes MUCH better pictures. It's all in the lens.

ProTouring442 · #10 03-25-2008, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Rellim51

I got a Nikon D200 last year. I get tired of carrying it at car shows so I bought a little Nikon S600 to carry in my pocket. Though the MP rating is about the same the 200 takes MUCH better pictures. It's all in the lens.

The frimware and processor also make a huge difference. I have a Nikon D70 and the pictures it takes will blow away our 10mp point and shoot.

Shiny Side Up!
Bill