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SLR-like digital camera models that presently match digital night and low-light photography Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006

SLR Like digital camera for night and low light photography
Low-Key Low-light shot
SLR-like digital cameras are exactly the same as DSLR cameras except for the changeable lens. These cameras have a fixed lens that usually covers most types of photography. Take Fuji’s Fine Pix s9500, for example. This SLR-like digital camera comes with a 28mm – 300mm 35mm-equivalent lens, which covers 28mm wide-angle landscape photography, up to 300mm telephoto for wild life and sports or action shots. It also comes with a 9 Mega Pixel count, which provides high quality pictures. If you are on a budget, SLR-like digital cameras are a good choice because they have good qualities, plus lenses that cover most types of photography.

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Prosumer compact digital cameras for night and low-light photography Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006
Prosumer digital camera for low light and night photography
Sunset snap taken on Canon S2
The less you pay, the less you get. Lower Mega Pixel counts and less control over digital camera’s settings will limit your creativity in the near future.

Prosumer compact digital cameras are often called quality compact digital cameras. These digital cameras offer Mega Pixel counts ranging from 6 to 8, which are within the DSLR Mega Pixel range.

First, you must consider which type of photography you are interested in, and then you should choose a focal range. The lower the focal length, the better it is for wide-angle landscape shooting. The higher the focal length, the better it is for macro, close-up, portraiture and telephotos.Write Comment ( Comments)
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Consumer point and shoot digital cameras for night or low-light photography Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006
Consumer point and shoot digital cameras for night or low-light photography
Candle shot taken with Canon Powershot A75
You have fewer options here. Compact digital cameras are not built for this purpose but almost all of them have night scene mode built into them. The more Mega Pixels and control over aperture, ISO and shutter speed settings, the better. Usually 3.2 Mega Pixels cameras are ideal for Web photos. But if you like prints of your photos, then you should start with 6-plus Mega Pixels. Point and shoot digital cameras are multi-purpose cameras and you cannot expect much from them. If you are serious in photography and like to shoot night scenes and low-light photos, then you should move to the following categories of digital cameras.Write Comment ( Comments)
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DSLR cameras for night and low-light photography Print E-mail
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Friday, 11 August 2006
Night and low-light photography digital SLR camera
Moon nightscape taken on Canon 30D
If you like to step where professionals have stepped, you have come to the right category. For best results, you can use the sort of digital camera that both prosumers and professional photographers use. A DSLR camera lets you build up a collection of lenses over time, which enables you to advance with other camera upgrades and also different sorts of photography. So, if you were using your collection of lenses with Canon’s Digital rebel (Canon 300D), and now you’ve upgraded to Digital Rebel XT (Canon 350D), you can still use your collection of lenses. This is a big advantage because a variety of lenses are suitable for different types of photography, which can produce stunning photos in that specific genre.Write Comment ( Comments)
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How to Purchase the Best Camera for Digital Night and Low-Light Photography Print E-mail
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Written by Al Sadr   
Sunday, 09 July 2006
Best Camera for Night and Low-Light Photography
Taken with Fuji Fine Pix s9500
How many of us have become interested in photography almost by accident? With a camera given as a gift, bought to capture family shots, holiday memories or snaps of friends while out on a picnic, how often do we subsequently become seduced by the dreamy nature of photography?
Like almost any photographer I know, this doesn’t stop here. Every new scene and experience is sort of magical on its own.

It’s fair to say that greater numbers of photographs are taken outside, and most or at least half of them are taken in low light or at night. In order to explore the magical world of night and low-light photography, photographers need to have the right set of equipment - especially a great digital camera -to be able to capture snaps of this whole new arena of mysterious low-light and nighttime scenes.


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