Forum: Photography


Subject: Digital Camera Recommendations?

Brandi opened this issue on May 23, 2007 ยท 20 posts


thundering1 posted Tue, 29 May 2007 at 8:52 PM

Kodak dropped this camera - and has bowed out of the "Replaceable Lens" DSLR category. They also stopped manufacturing their own digital backs for medium and large format systems - which my buds and I thought was a dumb idea since theirs was one of the best (16MP at the time), and lower cost ($15k as opposed to $25-$35k).

They seem to be focusing on upper end P&S to prosumer quality EVFs.

While their digicams are nice - even the EasyShare I have has a beautiful Schneider lens - they have a sluggish response time - and that's more of what I was getting at - as well as most off-brand cameras were what we saw coming in most for repairs. A good portion of the camera buying goal is to be actually "shooting" with your camera, not waiting while it's at another trip to the shop.

While Canon has come really close to having their EVF's (as well as their non-replaceable-lens SLRs) respond almost as fast as their SLRs, the top contender is still Olympus - it really is hats-off to them. Starting with their IS line in the mid-90's they've made that type of system every bit as reliable.