best type of camera lens for portraits image
Etnie
I'm really into photography and I have the money to buy a pretty nice camera. Nothing like 2,000 dollars or anything, but I want to know what type of camera would be good with taking action shots like skateboarding or alot of movement, but also takes really nice portrait pictures too. Help please! :)
Answer
Get yourself a 35 mm, SLR (Single Lens Reflex) film camera.
A Canon EOS Rebel will do what you want for about $400.00 and it is both automatic as well as manual.
For the sports shots you want; you have to get a fast film, and preferably a fast lens, (about another $400.00) but the lens that does come with the camera should do the job you want quite adequatly.
Use an film speed with an ISO of 800 and for dusk scenes an ISO of 1600 should do. The 800 ISO can be purchased in many stores, but the 1600 ISO has to be bought from a camera shop. But not one that is a franchise like Blacks or Wal Mart. The independant camera stores will be more likely to stock those fast films.
You can get a 3200 ISO film as well but it only comes in black and white and I think that only Kodak makes it.(it's a really fast film, you can take night scenes with that one!)
The 800 & 1600 ISO film can be bought in colour film and I would suggest Fujicolour for colour film but Kodak for all your black and white films.
For your portraiture photos use a slow speed film of 100 or 200 ISO.
You can get as low as 24 ISO in black and white film and that gives you an extreme amount of detail. However the lower your ISO the more light you will need to use it! Okay?
The higher your ISO the less light you will need.
The higher the film speed the more grainy your negatives will be, hence you will have grainier photos than a film speed of 100 ISO.
The Canon EOS is the most common SLR the students of photography buy. It's a good strong camera and it does take good photos. It can be geared to work with a fast film to take action photos like the skateboarders you want to catch.
All the best to you in your endeavours.
EDIT: A lot of the youth today go with the digital cameras but I would caution against that. Although film looks like it is going out of style I can assure you that it will be around for a very long time. Digital cannot compare with a film speed of 800 or 400 ISO and it will be decades before they produce a digital camera that can come close to the quality of an 400 ISO film. Although the digitals give you immediate gratification it loses out in quality. Film may be more expensive in the short run but in the long run? It is the best choice.
Get yourself a 35 mm, SLR (Single Lens Reflex) film camera.
A Canon EOS Rebel will do what you want for about $400.00 and it is both automatic as well as manual.
For the sports shots you want; you have to get a fast film, and preferably a fast lens, (about another $400.00) but the lens that does come with the camera should do the job you want quite adequatly.
Use an film speed with an ISO of 800 and for dusk scenes an ISO of 1600 should do. The 800 ISO can be purchased in many stores, but the 1600 ISO has to be bought from a camera shop. But not one that is a franchise like Blacks or Wal Mart. The independant camera stores will be more likely to stock those fast films.
You can get a 3200 ISO film as well but it only comes in black and white and I think that only Kodak makes it.(it's a really fast film, you can take night scenes with that one!)
The 800 & 1600 ISO film can be bought in colour film and I would suggest Fujicolour for colour film but Kodak for all your black and white films.
For your portraiture photos use a slow speed film of 100 or 200 ISO.
You can get as low as 24 ISO in black and white film and that gives you an extreme amount of detail. However the lower your ISO the more light you will need to use it! Okay?
The higher your ISO the less light you will need.
The higher the film speed the more grainy your negatives will be, hence you will have grainier photos than a film speed of 100 ISO.
The Canon EOS is the most common SLR the students of photography buy. It's a good strong camera and it does take good photos. It can be geared to work with a fast film to take action photos like the skateboarders you want to catch.
All the best to you in your endeavours.
EDIT: A lot of the youth today go with the digital cameras but I would caution against that. Although film looks like it is going out of style I can assure you that it will be around for a very long time. Digital cannot compare with a film speed of 800 or 400 ISO and it will be decades before they produce a digital camera that can come close to the quality of an 400 ISO film. Although the digitals give you immediate gratification it loses out in quality. Film may be more expensive in the short run but in the long run? It is the best choice.
What type of Camera do professional photographers use?
Hope
What type of cameras do they use to take pictures for magazines?
Answer
Professional photographers use different cameras depending on what the images are going to be used for.
Magazines publish editorial pieces, landscapes and scenes, portraits, models, fashion, news items, travel photos, adversing and architectural photos - and that is just the GENERAL magazines.
In general, studio photos are set up using medium format cameras, and so are many architectural photos. Some pros prefer large format cameras, too. These are film and , increasingly, digital cameras producing very large extremely detailed images. They are expensive - a recently released digital medium format camera is about $10,000 with one lens, but that is the cheapest- until theis camera came along, you needed $30,000 to buy one, and most are much more. These cameras lend themselves to careful, methodical work; they are no use to the paparazzi and sports photographers.
The staff photographer on a magazine or newspaper is generally equipped with a full frame digital single lens reflex. Two brands dominate -Canon and Nikon, and the arguments about the relative merits of each are endless. These cameras cost between $3000 and $9000 depending on model. They are versatile, high performance tools and you will see them at sporting events and fashion shows, weddings, news events.... they are the workhorses of photography. The huge investment that their owners have in lenses and accessories means that photographers and the companies that employ them, do not change brands just because a "better camera" comes along.
Many magazines do not employ or even hire photographers. Nor do they buy from freelancers. They get their photographs from Image Libraries (stock photos). The biggest and most respected of these stock libraries list the cameras from which they will accept images. The last list I have seen from Getty's is certainly out of date, since at several; of the cameras on it have been superseded and there are many more highly specified cameras in the marketplace, but it gives you an idea of what is acceptable:
" Canon EOS: 1D(Mk1,2&3), 1DS(Mk1,2,2n&3) 5D, 30D and 40D; Nikon: D2X, D2Xs, D3, D200, D300 and the Leica M8. All medium format backs (e.g. backs by Phase One and Leaf etc) produce sufficiently high quality images to be accepted by us." That was in 2007, and there doesn't seem to be an updated list on their site, although in 2009 they announced that they would accept images from a compact camera for the first time - the Leica M9.
Professional photographers use different cameras depending on what the images are going to be used for.
Magazines publish editorial pieces, landscapes and scenes, portraits, models, fashion, news items, travel photos, adversing and architectural photos - and that is just the GENERAL magazines.
In general, studio photos are set up using medium format cameras, and so are many architectural photos. Some pros prefer large format cameras, too. These are film and , increasingly, digital cameras producing very large extremely detailed images. They are expensive - a recently released digital medium format camera is about $10,000 with one lens, but that is the cheapest- until theis camera came along, you needed $30,000 to buy one, and most are much more. These cameras lend themselves to careful, methodical work; they are no use to the paparazzi and sports photographers.
The staff photographer on a magazine or newspaper is generally equipped with a full frame digital single lens reflex. Two brands dominate -Canon and Nikon, and the arguments about the relative merits of each are endless. These cameras cost between $3000 and $9000 depending on model. They are versatile, high performance tools and you will see them at sporting events and fashion shows, weddings, news events.... they are the workhorses of photography. The huge investment that their owners have in lenses and accessories means that photographers and the companies that employ them, do not change brands just because a "better camera" comes along.
Many magazines do not employ or even hire photographers. Nor do they buy from freelancers. They get their photographs from Image Libraries (stock photos). The biggest and most respected of these stock libraries list the cameras from which they will accept images. The last list I have seen from Getty's is certainly out of date, since at several; of the cameras on it have been superseded and there are many more highly specified cameras in the marketplace, but it gives you an idea of what is acceptable:
" Canon EOS: 1D(Mk1,2&3), 1DS(Mk1,2,2n&3) 5D, 30D and 40D; Nikon: D2X, D2Xs, D3, D200, D300 and the Leica M8. All medium format backs (e.g. backs by Phase One and Leaf etc) produce sufficiently high quality images to be accepted by us." That was in 2007, and there doesn't seem to be an updated list on their site, although in 2009 they announced that they would accept images from a compact camera for the first time - the Leica M9.
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