gearguy wrote:Ehh, you people seem to be thinking I am talking about Good Cameras and seem to be convinced that there is no such thing as a bad Digital Camera (which there are).
Hence why I said most in the £170 range, as a lot of them really are bad. Regardless of how you look at them.
There is bad cameras, but if you buy a Nikon, Canon, Sony, or Panasonic they are not "crap".
Remember, yes what Beavo or whatever his name is said about the exposure times being the same is true - But I'm talking about over a range of CHEAP NASTY cameras - Lenses? When was the last time you saw a Camera in the sub £170 range that allowed you to adjust the lens lmao (And some of them don't even have ISO setting... LOL). Remember on some of them you can't actually adjust the exposure times, or other settings well enough to give any notable difference as on cheapo-cams.
Most of them have like a tiny lense that resembles a pinhole so you get a nice photo in the middle with big dark edges and lots geometry issues.
My friend has a 130USD Canon A400 with a 3x zoom and variable ISO. Very little lens distortions. No perceptible vignetting.
Perhaps you should use proper terminology and spend the effort use names (or screen names correctly) to retain some credibility
Imagine I want to Photograph a toddler running along a street at Night (as toddlers tend to do wen you go out at night with them) - I set my camera up for so called night photography, find a surface to place the camera on if a Tripod is not immiediatly available - press the shutter button, to get a perfectly still shot of the street with crisp imaging everywhere - only to get blur instead of a toddler in the shot that resembles a semi-transparent tumor sliding through the streets,
Not enough availble light, slow shutter speed..
Of COURSE the toddler is going to be a blur. Without a wide aperture and ISO to get a shutter speed above 1/60, moving people are going to blur. It does not matter if you use a tripod, stable surface, or hand hold.
This is a perfect example of why Digital Cameras are just in general, crap. Think about it - do you have to go to all that hassle with Film? No. And is Film better quality? Yes. Regardles of LCD displays and being able to delete shots - you find that you don't really ever need to "delete" shots from a Film camera as they don't look like [censored] because you've not set up your ISO right.
ISO speeds do not vary with a roll of film. A roll of ISO 200 film is going to be ISO 200, no matter what. The exception might be that the lab will push or pull your film in processing in an attempt to rescue horribly exposed shots. I'll leave the "film is better than digital" alone with the exception of saying that I cannot tell the difference between prints of film and digital.
There are so many ignorant statements about photography in the above post. What is your experience with photography?