Best Digital Cam with Manual Functions?

[Venom]

A couple other good sites are:

www.dpreview.com

www.dcresource.com

These should get on the road to understanding the techno jargon of digital photography, as well as having extremely in-depth reviews on many cameras.

 

[ChrisNCT]

The Canon Digital Rebel does not take pictures using the LCD screen. You have to look throught the window like you would do in a regular 35mm camera. MY screen is off until I take apicture, then it will show a preview of the picture just taken.

 

[Dee]

Whats a good camera for somebody on a really tight budget? Should I stick to scanning film or invest money in a digital camera. I want pictures of my babies for everyone to see. :3

EDIT: has to be MAC compatible. ^^; Forgot that.

 

[Venom]

With the olympus you can use the screen to shoot. It is a fast refresh live feed of what the camera sees-like the lcd screen on a video camera--and its framing is 100% accurate. With the peer-through viewfinder you do have to adjust however, but like I said I think it has markings on the viewfinder lenses that show you where the picture will actually be, so you can still use it to frame.

 

[WYSIWYG]

Whats a good camera for somebody on a really tight budget? Should I stick to scanning film or invest money in a digital camera. I want pictures of my babies for everyone to see. :3

EDIT: has to be MAC compatible. ^^; Forgot that.

Hiya,

I would think a digital might be better than scanning in pix from film. I imagine it would depend on the actual quality of the scanner though.

As to me, I went ahead and spent the extra for the Canon Digital Rebel. I found a used one on Ebay. It was less than a year and came with 1 lense. Sure, it doesn't have everything I want, but after spending a smidge over $600 (with shipping), all I need for it is a battery, and then I'm ready to get started.

I just couldn't find anything less expensive with such great reviews. There were a few people who slammed it, but overall, people were really happy with it.

Anyway, I did my research and even the used ones are running close to what the brand new ones are running. That's a good thing, because when I get to the point that I can afford to upgrade to a better camera, I'll be able to sell it and get most of (if not all) my money back out of it.

I look forward to "bugging" ya'll with my spider pix soon.

Catch ya'll later and thanks for your help.

Wysi

 

[ChrisNCT]

Good buy! Any ideas on the lens that it comes with?

 

[WYSIWYG]

Good buy! Any ideas on the lens that it comes with?

Canon EFS 18-55mm lens

I imagine that's pretty standard for a camera sold with a lense?
As expensive as it was for me, I doubt I'll be adding a macros or longer
telephoto lense.

It should be interesting to see what I can come up with. One thing I'd like to do is find out what an adapter would cost (if there IS such a thing) so that I can use my k-mount zoom lense (80-200), though I'm not sure that would even work.

We went to the store today and I found a place that actually had this camera in stock. I got to look it over, though I just can't wait to GET it so I can start bugging everyone with it!