Equipment Recommendations

Loosely basing this short article on the previous blog entry The Right Equipment, I am going to offer my opinion on some of today’s equipment.

What I would look for:

· A camera of at least 10 megapixel, to ensure sharp images and the ability to reasonably crop images and maintain a high resolution.

· A camera that has anti shake built in or anti shake built into the lenses this helps ensure much sharper images when taking hand-held shots.

· A camera that allows you to have complete creative control over every image when set to manual mode. This meaning, ISO, White Balance, EV correction, Shutter Speed, and aperture primarily.

· Ability to go from auto focus to manual focus very easily, along with exposure and focus lock.

· A camera that allows you to set you focal area from a very small area to very wide.

· Ability to shoot bracketed shots, with as wide ranges of selection in that the better. This meaning ability to shoot 3, 5 or more images at 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 EV steps.

These are the things I can think of right of hand, and I believe some of the most important things when considering a new camera. Of course there is always budget! I make this recommendation, 1^st find the camera you want and then worry about the money. If you cannot afford the camera you really want right now, I recommend saving up your money until you can. In the end you will be much happier, and if you get the fever in your blood you’re going to eventually purchase the camera you really want anyway. I do recommend entry level cameras for beginners but, from there get what you want.

Something else I would like to mention here is a question I often am faced with. More megapixel means better picture s right? Not necessarily, if you go with 10mp you should be fine; the primary thing is learning how to correctly use the equipment. My honest opinion anything over 18 megapixel is really a waste of money. The only real benefit you are going to get is the ability to enlarge your photos to massive sizes. The image quality and resolution will change very little if any beyond that point. Anthony Poston Photography