Camera

I experienced a few cameras but the quality doesn’t satisfy me. I want a digital camera that takes good clear pictures in any kind of light. Also i want it to take the same kind of quality pictures in night as well.
I would also like a slim(if possible) , big screen camera to review pics with a few fun tools for the pictures = ) Any of you recommend any good ones? My price range is *under* $300 dollars. Preferably close to $250 dollars or under. Thanks and I hope to receive some good answers.

You may have wait a few years. The only cameras that come close to your requirements are the current DSLR’s and they are true professional cameras … not slim by design.

The small sensors in compact digital cameras will never approach the quality the larger sensors found in DSLR cameras, or the advanced circuitry, or the interchangeable lenses, or the low noise/high ISO qualities that the newer DSLR’s have and of course the cost of those are about 10x what you want to pay … for the body ONLY.

Ask again in about five or so years. Or buy something in your budget, but without all the bells and whistles … for now.

http://www.dpreview.com

I’m in charge of making my drama group’s script for our short film. And in one scene, I would like to have the camera so it’s looking over someone’s shoulder, down at someone else who is sitting down at a desk. How can I do this? What Camera Direction is it called?

Over the shoulder shot. (OSS or OS, for plain over shoulder.)

I have a kodak right now and i HATE IT.
I like photography but i am to poor to afford a really nice camera. But i take pictures all the time so i still want to invest in a nice, but still a little on the cheaper side, digital camera.
What brands are good?

buy the canon sd1100, its great it has lots of different settings like b&w and sephia and so on
i think ull like it and it like 160 at amazon and 180 at walmart

I really want to take the videos off of my video camera and put them on the computer for editing. But even though I have the chord and everything, when I plug in the camera, it does not appear on the computer screen. What do I need to do?

(again, I am using a Sony Digital 8 Video Camera)

Thanks!
I plugged my video camera into the computer and went into "Windows Movie Maker", but when I plugged it in, the camera showed no signs of being plugged in and the software didn’t recognize it.

Digital8 and miniDV tape based camcorders write digital video information to the tape.

Just connect the camcorder’s DV port to the computer’s firewire port. USB will not work. USB-to-firewire cable/hub/adapter/converter things will not work. If your computer has no firewire port, hopefully it has an available expansion slot so you can add one. When corrently connected, with the camcorder in Play mode, your video editor will import high quality DV-format video.

Firewire, DV, I.LINK and IEEE1394 are all the same thing… USB is generally used only for transferring stills from the memory card.

If you are unwilling or unable to add a firewire port to your computer, then the analog method is required: You will need to get a capture card or "analog/digital converter" – Pinnacale (Dazzle) and Roxio (among MANY others) make them with USB connectivity.

I had just bought a brand new kodak m340 digital camera, Its only a month old. The lens is stuck open, When I try to turn it on the lens will close, then open again, than beep twice. Nothing shows up on the screen. I have now idea how to fix it, any ideas?

Has it fallen once?

Anyhow what can I say Kodak and "my lens is stuck" is pretty common around here. Kodak doesn’t makes good quality cameras and a stuck lens is very common you should be able to replace it under warantee IF you haven’t let it fall. It usually happens when it falls!

But really the parts used in Kodak Cameras seem.. really low quality as the amount of posts with this question here are so common. Please next time don’t buy Kodak!

I was wondering what cameras the:
Opteka .38x HD² Macro Fisheye Lens will fit on and if there is any other info I should know about lenses from Opteka. I already know this is going to be cheaply made and not very good quality, but its just going to be for fun. I have a Digital Rebel XT.

For $35 you won’t be a huge loss even if you don’t like it.

Be aware that the edges will be soft and there will be some chromatic aberrations, but in the end a fun thing.

it will be my first digital SLR camera, i really enjoy photography and want to get into it.

Buy the Nikon D40 as your first. It is built to professional standards but with the consumer in mind. What I mean by this is that you can have full control over what it does, and at the same time it still has programs for different shooting modes. It is easy to use, cheap, and is good for getting you into the market. Use it until you feel that you have out grown it (maybe around a year?) and upgrade to something a bit more professional…D80 or D90….or if you have the money buy the D300 (get one used, just make sure you do not buy it from a professional, they will have used it a lot more than a non-professional).

Check amazon and ebay for a package deal, it will come with two lenses (18-55mm and 55-200mm), memory card, tripod, carry case and a few other things. I dont know exactly how much this would cost, but somewhere in the range of $550 to $700. D40 with a 18-55mm lens retails for $450 at JR.com, and the two lens deal (without memory card, etc) retails for $700 on JR.com

I’ve heard they’re shutting down film production… I’m assuming that means cameras won’t be sold either. Is that correct? If so, when does it all end?

Polaroid has exited the instant film market. Both cameras and film are no longer being produced. You can still buy both until supplies run out, then the film will become very expensive on ebay and the cameras will become very cheap. People are already starting to horde the film, but they won’t be able to keep it for long because it can’t be stored like regular film. It stops working completely within a couple of years depending on the temperature at which it was stored.

The good news! Japanese school girls are still very interested in instant photography and so is Fuji Film. Fuji makes a couple of very interesting instant cameras under the Instax brand with better features than many of the Polaroids. The cost is about the same and they show no signs of getting out of the instant business any time soon.

I experienced a few cameras but the quality doesn’t satisfy me. I want a digital camera that takes good clear pictures in any kind of light. Also i want it to take the same kind of quality pictures in night as well.
I would also like a slim(if possible) , big screen camera to review pics with a few fun tools for the pictures = ) Any of you recommend any good ones? My price range is *under* $300 dollars. Preferably close to $250 dollars or under. Thanks and I hope to receive some good answers.

You may have wait a few years. The only cameras that come close to your requirements are the current DSLR’s and they are true professional cameras … not slim by design.

The small sensors in compact digital cameras will never approach the quality the larger sensors found in DSLR cameras, or the advanced circuitry, or the interchangeable lenses, or the low noise/high ISO qualities that the newer DSLR’s have and of course the cost of those are about 10x what you want to pay … for the body ONLY.

Ask again in about five or so years. Or buy something in your budget, but without all the bells and whistles … for now.

http://www.dpreview.com

I have heard that the best brand in digital cameras is Nikon, what do you think?

Nikon for DSLR, also cannon, it’s all up to personal preference