Taking and editing pictures (DUW)

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Originally Posted by reptileexperts

Well, if you want the feel of a DSLR with some of the convinience of a point and shoot, you may want to look into the Canon G series, they have some pretty sweet cameras, and they preform at a level you can grow to appreciate. They aren't the fastest in the world of cameras, but they are up there on an entry level DSLR range. Price wise - $400-$550 typically.

I just ordered a new Nikon 1 J1. It's Nikons entry into the Mirrorless camera world. It's a step up from typical point and shoot, faster than anything in its class, and has a superb auto-focus system. Not sure yet if it will live up to the hype, I'll play with it tonight though and find out! It has a LOT of negatives out there, and there are probably better options for people who do not have money vested in Nikon gear, but as I have a Nikon 500mm Lens, and plenty of other primes, I am excited with the potential this camera offers me.

If you want to shake things up, consider the Lumix GF3. Great entry line into the step up from point and shoot, is a mirrorless camera, and has speed you want, but again, not as fast as the Nikon. This is, of course, in reference to shooting speeds as in FPS, the Nikon 1 series shoots an astonishing 60 FPS full resolution images. Insane! my $3000 DSLR shoots 6FPS as a comparsion. . . If you want speed as far as time from powering on the camera to being able to take the picture, the nikon 1 series comes in just under 2 seconds from power and the image being taken, a DSLR of course is micro seconds... but these are large bulky cameras.

If I mentioned a term you're not familiar with, let me know and I'll better clarify this for you.

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Well in that case mirrorless and DSLR I'm not sure what that means! Lol thanks for all the suggestions. Have you used the canon before?

Lightroom is by far the best for straight photography but if you want to have a decent photoshop program, I'd recommend Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/). I used to use Photoshop and then got tired of paying for the updated versions (despite my college discount) so I looked around. There are quite a few people using Gimp and you can put addons, etc into it just like Photoshop. The interface is similar to Photoshop as well so if you've ever used that, it's easy to navigate. Here's some of my work that I've 'touched up' with it.

http://th08.deviantart.net/fs43/PRE/...bd0d8eba55.jpg
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs45/f/20..._Dracoluna.jpg
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/...na-d4u66er.jpg
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...na-d3c08yc.jpg

And one of the digital pieces I did when learning to work with it:
http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/...na-d2xxvy1.jpg

I have a canon power shot, have had many for many years, SD600, SD700, SD1100 . . . Canon has good Image quality most of the time, but some can be pretty picky, especially in low light. Nikon handles higher ISO sensitivity much better.

DSLR = Digital Single Lens Reflect camera, basically it has a mirror in it that reflects the image to you eyepiece and blocks the sensor. When you push the shutter the mirror raises up and the image is captured

Mirrorless = New technology with no mirror covering the sensor. MOST are live view or digital viewfinder only, but if you're use to your iPhone then it won't be too hard to overcome. These are smaller and cheaper than DSLR, and while you can still interchange the lenses, they don't take quite as good of images as a true DSLR.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7223/7...a747fb3b_z.jpg
Taken with my new Nikon J1 tonight Mirrorless Camera

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7232/7...1222e9ce_z.jpg
The new J1 taken with my iPhone :-P

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6078/6...a710305c_z.jpg
These are two of my DSLR - Canon 7D and Nikon D7000