What's your favorite brand/type of camera?

[Glisten]

I've used both Nikon & Canon, love them both.

 

[Alenci]

I'm not a good enough photographer to own more than one camera. My dad has a Nikon 35mm camera that I've used. My camera is a Sony DSC-W1 (digital).

 

[Tangi]

My Camra is Olympus Digital camera. I love it.

 

[Lilandra]

a Minolta Dimage Z3. It is easy to use has tons of features. Also it is a entry level SLR so I won't grow out of it too soon. It has tons of inexpensive optional lenses too and can take an external flash. As a writer I take my own pictures for newspaper articles.


The Minolta A2 is the professional grade in the line but is too pricey and maybe too manual for a beginner like me.

Nikon quality is unimpeachable.

I shoot high school sports and sometimes other stuff. I usually use a Canon 10D, but sometimes I use a G6. Rarely, I use a Rebel. What kinds of cameras have you found to be easy to use?

 

[countrymousenc]

Olympus OM10 (Yes, I'm as old as dinosaurs!). I've tried the newer ones with the features, and they are nice to have for point and shoot, but they eat batteries like mad. Then, being a little on the ditzy side, I've grown to depend on seeing exactly what I'm getting when I look through the lens, and adjusting manually. With digitals and non-slrs, I forget to change my settings. (oops)

 

[Kept_Woman]

I'm a canon fan

 

[Piano Player]

Started out as a Canon fan, and consider the T-90 best camera I ever used. The averaging spot meter was truly useful. However, once I reached a certain age, I needed autofocus, and my survey of systems at the time led me to Nikon. I still keep an old Canon F-1N for my 85mm 1.2 and 35mm TS lenses--which were my favorite Canon lenses. I currently have 2 F-100s, an N-80, an N-70, and a D-70. I keep an Olympus Stylus Epic and an Olympus D-560 for pocket film and digital use. Polaroid SX-70 for art photography. Haven't touched the Yashica twin lens in ages.

 

[staugustine68]

A Sony Mavica digital camera that uses Floppy discs.

 

[Grey Eminence]

Right now I am using a Fuji S7000 digial camera. I am happy with it. It has a modest cycle rate and for major use (as in at anime convention) an external flash and base are must. Eventually I will replace it with a digital SLR body but it works for now.

 

[Palatka44]

You'll not pry my fingers off my Pentax K1000. I've tried many a camera but I still come back to this little baby.

 

[indigo tree]

Olympus, especially the OM series.

 

[faller_g]

I have a Kodak LS633, which is pretty good except its only 3.1MP, but i love it. Its got some cool features like a big OLED screen (whatever that is??) and macro which isn't bad, and i love how it tells me what it is focusing on and stuff.

 

[RobNJ]

I miss my Nikon F-3, still have an FM2 & a epson digital..which I want to replace/upgrade in the future

 

[skilltroks]

I think my fam like Sony. All the digital cameras we have in the house are Sony. It's a good camera, for a good price.

 

[Geremy03]

I use a canon 300d because it was cheap for me to buy.

 

[countrymousenc]

Have to modify my initial response. My favorite is now a tie between my OM10 and the Lumix FZ10 (digital). I wouldn't have believed I'd ever like a digital camera this much.

 

[leigh01]

my fave camera brand is konica

 

[2Bhumble]

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20 (Digital)

My favorite features - 5 mp, image stabilization, 2" viewfinder, 12X optical zoom, Leica lens

The tech stuff (if interested)...

Sensor
• 1/2.5" Type CCD
• 5.3 million pixels total
• 5.0 million effective pixels
Image sizes
• 2560 x 1920
• 2048 x 1536
• 1600 x 1200
• 1280 x 960
• 640 x 480
• 1920 x 1080 (16:9 HDTV)
Movie clips
• 320 x 240 (10 / 30 fps)
• With audio
• Limited only by storage
• MOV (Motion JPEG)
Lens
• 36 - 432 mm equiv. (12x zoom)
• F2.8 (throughout zoom range)
• MEGA OIS (Mode 1 / Mode 2)
• LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT
• 13 Elements in 8 Groups
• 3 Aspherical Lenses/3 Aspherical Surfaces, 1 ED Lens
Focus
• 1 point, 3 point, 9 point Autofocus
• Spot-focusing
• Single shot or Continuous AF
• Switcheable focus trigger
• Manual Focus(Ring)
• 5cm macro mode (Wide), 200cm (Tele)
Shooting mode
• Program (with shift)
• Aperture Priority
• Shutter Priority
• Manual
• Macro
• Moving Image
• Portrait
• Sports
• Landscape
• Night Landscape
• Panning
• Night Portrait
• Fireworks
• Party
• Snow
• AE compensation -2.0EV to +2.0 EV in 1/3EV steps
• Auto bracketing
Sensitivity
• Auto
• ISO 80, 100, 200, 400
White Balance
• Auto
• 4 presets
• Custom WB (manual)
• White Balance fine tune (R-B)
Image parameters
• Contrast (Low, Standard, High)
• Sharpness (Low, Standard, High)
• Saturation (Low, Standard, High)
• Noise reduction (Low, Standard, High)
• Color effects (Cool, Warm, Black & White, Sepia)
Flash
• Built-in pop-up flash
• Modes: Auto, Auto with red-eye reduction, Slow sync, On/Off
• Range: 0.3 to 7.0 m (0.98 feet - 23.0 feet)
• External flash via hot-shoe Storage• SD/MMC
• 16 MB SD supplied*
Viewfinder
• EVF (114,000 pixels)
• Field of view approx 100%
• -4 to +4 dioptre adjustmentLCD monitor
• 2.0" TFT LCD
• 130,000 pixels
Connectivity
• USB 2.0 Full Speed
• A/V out
• DC-IN
• Remote socket
Power
• Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery
• Battery Charger
• Battery Pack
• 16MB 6 SD Memory Card
• Lens Cap
• Lens Hood & Adaptor
• A/V & USB Cable
• Strap
• CD-ROM inc ArcSoft software bundle
• TIFF mode
Other features
• Spot, Center-weighted & Multi-pattern metering
• PictBridge and DPOF compatible
• Mega Optical Image Stabilisation
• Live Histogram
• AF assist lamp
• Built-in speaker and microphone
• Flip Animation function
• In-camera picture resizing and cropping
• Voice annotation
• 2/10 second self-timer
• Venus Engine II™ LSI Image Processor

 

[r.a.d._chick]

Well, the camera I'd like to get is a European brand, I think, not sure... it's called a Minolta. It's like... 600 dollars.

 

[Southern Cross]

Minolta is Japanese. Very good camera systems, perhaps one of the best 35mm flash systems ever produced. I shot with Minolta equipment for the first several years of my photography "hobby" stage, then bought nicer Minolta equipment when I started working professionally. Minolta is now merged with Konica, and the Minolta Konica Digital SLR just hit the market. Pretty exspensive, though. I contemplated getting one, but I'm shooting Nikon now, and I'd rather keep building the sytem I have. Lots of good cameras out there, though! Make sure you buy a camera you can grow with!