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Digital slr cameras for beginners

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Digital slr cameras cater for all types of picture taking, whether its for your self or as a gift so try and imagine the type of photography that you will be taking the

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Are you a people person and imagine taking portraits. Maybe its a documentary style and the subjects are in a certain environment at work. You could be a looking to go down the macro world and want to show how it looks really close up. Perhaps you want to get out more and shoot nature with sweeping vistas and landscapes to make striking art. Or you are into sports and want to be taking images of action. It could be the school team or maybe a semi pro level for your own club. Digital slr cameras do it all.

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Firstly have you considered all the options in the Dslr's smaller stable mates. Simple compacts with fixed lenses that cant be swapped. limited features and smaller sensors. Bridge type cameras more advanced features and better lens . but its still fixed and can't be changed. Some have a small range of lenses or adapters to alter focal length. Newer models may have a mirror less system.

Compact Cameras

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Digital slr - Brands

Considering spending a lot of money on a shiny new digital slr camera then consider which stable you opt for. Obviously the big two are Canon & Nikon. These marquee brands probably cost more pound for pound than the other makes. Don't brush aside the challengers like Sony, Pentax, Fuji, Olympus or Panasonic.Benefits of the bigger makes like Canon dslr's are more choices in bodies and lenses with a constant stream of innovation to keep their name at the top.

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Digital Camera weight

Consider what you want to photograph, as we mentioned earlier, then think could you happily walk around for hours, for example with 1.34kg of top spec' professional digital camera like Nikon D4 without a lens.  Are you sure a Panasonic Lumix won't do what you need. So, ease of use is a biggie. How portable do you want your camera to be. Should it fit into a slim shoulder bag or are you happy to carry it around in a nice Billingham made for camera and lenses. Also full frame digital cameras are bigger than their smaller frame siblings so decide whether you need the extra sensor size.

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Many of today's digital slr cameras offer a reasonable video option. So what lens will best suit digital footage. A nice quiet focus and zoom. A fast lens or lenses. Check to see if  video is capped to a cetain memory size.

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Digital sensor size The big two manufacturers flagship full frame digital slr cameras are Nikon D4 which is an Fx format and the other smaller sensors are Dx format and Canon 1Dx. The original film size for the slr camera was 36mm x 24mm and basically refers to what a full frame sensor measures up at. Buying a dslr camera with a smaller lens is going to have an effect on the angle of view so has different effects on whatever lens is used. For example my old  Canon 1d MK iv has a APS-H sensor with a 1.3 x crop. The Nikon D3100 has an APS-C sensor with a 1.5x crop factor. In general Canon have Full frame, 1.3x and 1.6x crop factors. Nikon has full frame and 1.5x crop factors.What this means in everyday shooting is that if you choose a digital slr that has all the features you want including smaller body and more portable then you will have a smaller sensor. say Nikon a Nikon D300, which has a crop factor of 1.5x and you have a Nikon AF NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4D Lens it effectively becomes a 75mm.  For landscape and other wide angle photography full frame sensors are the best choice, they also work better in low light. The extra crop factor in smaller sensors can help wildlife or sports photos where you get an extra magnification to gather more detail in the distance shots.

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Zoom or prime lenses

For convenience zooms make sense especially when you first purchase a good slr camera deal and get the kit lens supplied. For example an 18 -55mm to cover wide to standard shots. But consider if you want to use natural light. Say you love good portraiture and you shoot near the end of the day, some zooms will have an f-stop range say f4-f5.6 thats a whole stop you will loose from one end of the zoom range to the other.Fast zooms will have a fixed f-stop at all zoom ranges so you know what to expect. As a rule of thumb prime or fixed focal lengths have faster f-stops so good for low light shooting.

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You know you want to get that Dslr camera, but which one. Well do lots of research find at least three in depth reviews check out the suitability for your chosen style of photography. See if they in fact get good reviews. look in some forums. See what kind of system is available after you buy. You want a comprehensive choice for lenses. Buy from a reputable seller with a good returns policy if you need it.

But my final thought is if you are going to spend, sometimes, considerable amounts then after you have done your research and read the reviews, I would go down to your local camera store and pick them up. Have a play see how they feel. Ask the sales assistant all about them and see how there selling. You never know it may still be possible to go to a bricks and mortar store and get a better deal than on the web! Good hunting

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Will Polley is a professional photographer of over 20 years. Keep watching for some more specific posts on photographic styles and views on the hardware

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