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QUESTION:I am not a photographer but love photography, mainly taking pictures of
whats doing all around me and around the places I am visiting should it be
wherever. I dont know how much I would lug around with the (camera) lenses setup I
have got, but I am very critical for pictures they should be clear, sharp and
rich in colour. Here is my choice I've come up and I need your help:
a. Buy a 35mm format body (I have found a good deal on the Canon Elan 2e)
that will work with all mentioned lenses and flash? b. Buy a super (best) 35mm point and shoot camera that will do superb
pictures, so I can take it along with me almost always almost anywhere;
and that will be the Contax TVS 3? c. Or somehow get a digital Canon 10d that will work with th above
lenses.? d. or get something else digital, like an Olympus c-5050 plus a good
printer? My follow up question is/would be: Which printer to print as big as 8x10.
The 4 choices for you to pick would be Lets say light-heavy isn't an
issue, and all the selection you have is only the above, which would you choose?
ANSWER: From what you've said, it seems that you have high standards, you are a
perfectionist, and you want to control what your pictures look like. I
suspect that you won't be happy with any lesser equipment (especially of the
point and shoot variety), at least not for a very long time.
*If* weight and bulk is not an issue, your best bet is to keep alll your
lenses and find a decent body (the Elan IIe is excellent and will carry you
to even advanced levels of photography). The 28-135 IS pretty well
regarded, pretty sharp, very practical for all sorts of purposes. The
75-300 is reputably decent. The Sigma macro 105 is very, very sharp. The
550 EX is a very nice flash unit. They will all potentially give you the
excellent pictures that you demand. If the lenses still aren't sharp
enough, after you've learned a bit about your own photographic tastes and
abilities, you could sell them and buy a few fixed-focal-length lenses for
ultimate sharpness, great contrast (contributes to vividness, richness in
color, "snap" in pictures), low-light ability.
You could go for the Canon 10D if you can manage. This would be great if
you love to use your computer and love to pass around pics via the Internet.
This requires $$$$.
The next best choice is a high-end point and shoot, either film or digital.
You could sell all your lenses and get a pretty nice model. You get
something like a Canon G3 and still keep and use your flash. A high-end
digital would still allow you considerable artistic control, at the price of
super-duper sharpness and perhaps some low-light ability. Depth of field is
generally larger, so nicely blurred backgrounds might be harder to achieve
with a digital P&S. I don't know much about film P&S's, except that the
very nice ones (sharp, plus artistic control) cost a lot of money.
Considering your comments about your critical nature, I wouldn't settle for
any old digital P&S.
Regarding the weight issue, if the image quality is really important, I
suspect that you'll find a way to carry the heavy equipment anyway.
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