camera research final

April 18, 2014

Five Cameras Research by Cameron Smith

Different brands

SLR film camera – (Single lens reflector)

Brands: Canon, Minolta, Nikon

Good for: The manual controls can give you flexibility in how to take photos. People also like it old fashioned (non digital). It has good image quality on printed pictures. You can take alot of different types of pictures using lens, lights and tri-pods.

Drawbacks: The problems are you need to develop film in processing. It is non digital so it’s hard to develop films, it costs money to buy film, film is hard to find at stores and this type of camera rarely available so it is hard to buy these brands or to fix one.  It is also harder to learn how to use this camera.

Medium Format

Brands Holga, Mamiya, Fuji, Pentax

Good for:  It is good for getting close up photos with manual lens. It is not as heavy so  you can carry it around easier, good for taking pictures of larger areas like landscapes or cars or houses, can be used for focusing in a large picture of something small with a lot details.

Drawbacks: They can be really expensive ($10,000). They are not adaptable as they take specialty pictures. Many of these types of cameras use film not digital so they are hard to use., not very flexible for taking a variety of pictures and seem hard to figure out how to use.

Large format

Brands: Kodak, Monorail, Arc Swiss

Good for: These cameras take larger then medium format  photos so you get better picture quality and can take really large photos of landscapes and lakes. You can get film or digital versions of large format cameras.

Drawbacks: This camera is really heavy to hold so it you will tired lugging it around. If it breaks it could be expensive to fix. Sometimes you need to develop your own film and that it not easy – even for printing digital pictures. This type of camera is not very flexible, could be hard to figure out how to use and good for large but not small or regular old picture taking.

Digital SLR

Brands: Sigma, Canon, Tamron, Tokina, Panasonic

Good for:    This camera is good photo shooting and it has zoom in or out options for picture taking. You can download your photos to a memory card or computer. It is easier to use and lots of different types of digital cameras to choose from. It can take some speciality pictures using special equipment like lights and lots of lenses.  

Drawbacks: They can be very advanced and you need to know how to use the manual options for using the camera, they are more expensive than some cameras and sometimes they are little bigger and heavier to carry around.

Point and shoot

Brands: Canon, Yashica Panasonic

Good for: This type of camera is good for group shots, versatile for most types of picture taking, general small, light, easy to use and carry around. It automatically sets up to take a picture – you do not need to set the controls. You can have a digital version or a film version but the digital version is more common.

Drawbacks: Although you can take alot of pictures, it has a limited number of views to take pictures and cannot choose to take pictures in a different way. You cannot take speciality pictures except what is offered in automatic option, you are limited in how far you can zoom on a point and shoot and you are limited in using other equipment like extra lights.  

Which camera is good for you?

The camera that is good for me is the  point n shoot because it’s the only modern camera that I could recognise easily  and the only hand held one so that my hands wouldn’t get tired using it . The camera doesn’t cost a lot of money to buy, it’s flexible and can take a lot of different pictures. It’s easier to use then the other cameras.  I also like the fact that you can put the photos on the computer with no sweat. To add more good news, there’s no film to buy or develop so no hassle whatsoever.