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10/27/2007 11:48:32 PM · #1 |
Oh boy, here I go! I have finally saved up enough money to purchase my very first SLR camera. Nervous like none other, and feeling bad for my little Olympus, he's served me so well. Parting is such sweet sorrow!
Anyways, tomorrow im going to go buy a Canon Rebel XTi (10.1 MP) . It still seems so surreal to say that, but I am.
Wish me good luck, and cant wait to join you all in the big bad SLR world! |
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10/27/2007 11:57:21 PM · #2 |
Congrats, I'm sure your Oly wishes you well. ;-)
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10/28/2007 12:15:26 AM · #3 |
Congrats to you. What's it going to be?
Oops, Didn't read the original post right, it's late. I see it's an XTI.
Message edited by author 2007-10-28 00:21:18.
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10/28/2007 12:18:59 AM · #4 |
| wow. congratulations. i got the same camera this summer and i absolutely LOVE it. It took me a whole summer of babysitting but it was totally worth every penny. |
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10/28/2007 12:22:12 AM · #5 |
Just a bit of caution as I've seen it happen several times to different people:
P&S cameras, with their small lenses and near infinite focus ranges combined with consumer level in-camera processing, tend to make it "easy" to take good pictures (or put another way, hard to take bad pictures).
When you first make the jump to a DSLR you will notice two things: 1) MUCH shallower depth of field than you ever got out of the P&S, and 2) the images tend to require a bit of post processing to get the best out of them because they are flatter (contrast and color) and less sharp than what you get out of a P&S.
Both of these are GOOD things. But it may throw you for a loop the first time you take a shot and you see that nothing that you expected to be in focus is ... and that the image lacks contrast and color. But the reason it's a good thing is that, now you get to pick what is in focus and with post processing you can decide for yourself just how contrasty or how saturated you want the image to be and then sharpen it just the right amount for each image.
So, yes. Make the jump. But don't be too surprised when your very first images aren't what you expect. You'll learn and grow from it. And you'll definitely get better images in the long run.
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10/28/2007 12:59:30 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by dwterry:
Just a bit of caution as I've seen it happen several times to different people:
P&S cameras, with their small lenses and near infinite focus ranges combined with consumer level in-camera processing, tend to make it "easy" to take good pictures (or put another way, hard to take bad pictures).
When you first make the jump to a DSLR you will notice two things: 1) MUCH shallower depth of field than you ever got out of the P&S, and 2) the images tend to require a bit of post processing to get the best out of them because they are flatter (contrast and color) and less sharp than what you get out of a P&S.
Both of these are GOOD things. But it may throw you for a loop the first time you take a shot and you see that nothing that you expected to be in focus is ... and that the image lacks contrast and color. But the reason it's a good thing is that, now you get to pick what is in focus and with post processing you can decide for yourself just how contrasty or how saturated you want the image to be and then sharpen it just the right amount for each image.
So, yes. Make the jump. But don't be too surprised when your very first images aren't what you expect. You'll learn and grow from it. And you'll definitely get better images in the long run. |
Good advice to all newbie DSLR'ers and the same I gave to a person at a dinner party tonight. Good job David. |
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