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hello im sarah and iv just joind this group as ther is soo many questions i want to ask, and woul love to have feed back on photo on how to make them better or what im doin wrong.... photography ha been a top hoby for me over the last 3-4 hears since havin my son and took photos everyday and have now started takin photos for friends and family an more people are gettin intouc for me to take ther photos...
i have 2 lovely children who keep me very buzy and get tourtured with the camer hehe..
ther is so much i need to no but a the moment really enjoyi it and woild love sum feed back and people to talk to for advise... i no ther is a lot of stik about about pple who just pik up a camera and think they have summit, but we all gotta start sumwer and would still love to hear your advise.. xx:)

im currently lookin for a new camera and ben lokin at the canon 550d i dnt want to spend 2 much but iv only got acrappy cheep fujifilm s1600 and i think its a cany little camera and piks have turned owt great but ov i want better... this camera is crap fr movement, and want sumthn i ca use a flash gun with, and it seems to take a while toload after takin the photo which then u mis sumthing..... maybe thinkin about a 2nd habd 1 so i can get a large lens with it as the zoom was only 7 x on the camrea and ont he 1 im usin now its 15 x zoom and i do use this zoom alot, after sum research looks like people prefare nikon and canon to the sony sum say ther better quality is this rite?
what ever camera i get im lookin for over 15 mp as im loosin pic quality when i edit or crop my photos, tany advise woud b gea thanktoux
 
Hi Sarah, welcome to tp.
I'm fairly new the photography my self but I found once a had my canon 500D I was cropping photos a lot less and spending a little more time composing what I actually wanted. As for more sound and experienced advice you may find it in the equipment section of the forum.

Hope to see some of your pictures soon. :)
 
thanks for the reply and how do you find your camera? are u happy with it or are u wantin next one up? im lookin at that camer u have and the one abouve dont no wether to go for the higher 1 or not tho seems only difference apart from a few other settins is the higher mp which would i use? and better videos u can tka photos owt of...
what lenses do you use? im evan thinking about gettin a 2nd hand one for a better deal

also how do you add picture please do u ave to add from a web site, can u upload from my pictures? sorry for bonbarding u with loads of questions but have so much to ask, thanks
 
Hi Sara, welcome to TP :)
Don't be suckered into thinking more MP=Better quality, it's only partly true. More MP on a tiny sensor can actually be worse than fewer on a larger sensor! Things such as sensor size, higher ISO performance and lens quality have as much, if not more bearing than out-and-out pixels.
If you find you're always cropping and losing IQ (Image Quality) that way, a longer lens and tightening up your in-camera composition technique is a good way round this. Or simply get closer :)
Depends a lot on what you want to shoot?
Anyway, welcome again, have a good look around and remember the FAQ, tutorial and search function can throw up answers too, or just ask :)
No such thing a stupid question.
 
Hi Sarah

Firstly the 500D is a great starter but if the 550D was out at the time I personally would have purchased it instead. Reason is I have used a friends 550D and it just feels a little nicer in the hand for me. As for lenses the stock lens is fine to start with but as my photography has improved I have gone and purchased other lenses that I feel are better suited to what I want to take photos of. As for uploading your picture it has to be done on the web as far as I'm aware. Hope that helps a bit but it is a mine field of opinions out there. Good luck :)
 
Thankyou people for your advice and warm welcomes, so I'd probably be better goin for the. 500 and puttin the rest of the money to abetter lens? Like I said it the better zoom and image stability I really want... Could any 1 help me owt on what. Mm lens wolud b around 15 xzoom or more please, also is image stability in the camera or lens? Or do both have it? Sory for all the questions,
 
There is no equivilent for 15x zoom. The "15x" just refers to the difference between the longest and shortest focal length on the lens.

A 1-15mm lens would be "15x zoom"
A 10-150mm lens would be "15x zoom"
A 100-1500mm lens would also be "15x zoom"

What camera is the 15x zoom a feature on? If we know that we could look up the equivilent focal lengths.
 
Or another way to try and help is if you tell us what you plan on photographing as the norm then some advice or at least suggestions could be made. :)
 
Ah right, I onl have a crap fujifilm finepix s1600 at the moment but duz have a good zoom for a cheep camera but I'm lookin at getting a the canon 550d or 500 or may just buy a second hand one witi a few lenses... I have just a small lighting and background studio and take photos mainly of children, and is allways inside, I now use a vinyl backdrop which I love . When lookin at them in currys I had a try of the cameras and asked why the zoom wasn't very big, he told me the one with the 500 was around 3x zoom think it was 18-55mm and the lens with the 550 was around 7xzoom, I mean I don't use the full 15 x zoom when takin photos in the house but I do use it , how many meters away roughly would the 18-135 lence look asclose as rite infront? Thanks
 
Alastair said:
What camera is the 15x zoom a feature on? If we know that we could look up the equivilent focal lengths.
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Sarah mentioned a fujifilm s1600. From the digitalrev review, it's 15x (optical) zoom is 35mm equivalent focal range of 28mm to 420mm, on a 12.2 megapixels 6.18 x 4.55 mm sensor.

My e620, with it's relatively (in dSLR terms) small 4/3 sensor is 17.3 x 13.0 mm with roughly the same Mp (12).
Other dSLR's (Canon. Nikon etc) usually have an even larger sensor.

I'm trying not to get too bogged down with techy stuff (absolutely no value to a new starter) but for Canon, multiply the lens mm by 1.6 to get the equivalent 35mm size.

Sara, have a look around, haggle, cajole, beg :) You don't always have to settle for the supplied lens, tell them you (for example) want the 500D body but with the 18-135 lens instead of the 18-55. 'Proper' camera shops are usually better for this than high-street electrical superstores.
 
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Oh rite thankyou, they did actually have a deal in currys for the 500 witht.
The 18-135 lens but think was only £50 difference from the 550 with the same lens, Iv been looking at. 550 on ebay with the 18-135 lens was under 500 last nite I may make an offer on that camera think iv made my mind up what I want, and like u sed if I did want sumthing better ill try them u mentiond that don't have to b canon and may b cheeper.. Thankyou for your help :-)
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For indoor living-room or small studio portraits using a crop-sensor DSLR (like the 500D or the 500D) the most useful portrait lengths will probably be 50mm to 85mm, perhaps up to 135mm for close-up details (eyelashes, fingers and toes).

Are you planning on using some sort of studio-style lighting? even if it's just a couple of flashguns and brollies/diffusers used off-camera. The 18-135mm is f/3.5-5.6 and even with IS that's going to be a slow lens for "natural light" portraits indoors.

It's always worth having a search through Flickr for terms like "child portrait", looking at what other people are doing and the equipment/settings they are using to get them. And looking at the online photography tutorial guides and videos on YouTube, etc to see what people are using there for the style of photograpy you want to achieve. It would be very easy to buy what you think is about right, and then realise once you get started you'd have been better with something else.
 
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