World Toy Camera Day 2024 is on Saturday, October 19, 2024: olympus camera question?

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olympus camera question?

It is not a toy camera. That is the opinion of snobs.

It has manual capabilities, do you know that the best photographers in the world used the manual settings on cameras for most of their shots?

Most camera makers know that the "bells and whistles" sell more cameras, but it's the mechanical ruggedness and reliability of the bodies and the optics that make or break a camera in terms of taking a good picture.

Most people waste way too much time discussing the features of a camera and way too little time taking pictures and improving their technique.

If you can take good pictures with your e-420, you will take good pictures with a camera costing ten times as much. What that 10x camera gets you is a good picture in 1% of the cases where the e-420 might miss or get you with an incorrect exposure setting or blurry shot.

Do you like shooting with your E-420? Or are you suffering from buyer's remorse? If you paid $1500 for the top of the line 15MP camera with a 5 pound lens, would that prompt you to take more pictures and carry it around more often or would that simply make you more proud of owning the "best of the best" while shooting pictures of your dog in green automatic mode?

If this is your first DSLR, you will not be disappointed with the E-420. I guarantee you will be able to shoot for several years before you outgrow it unless you are a bound and determined professional level amateur. Even if you did outgrow it and wear it out completely, would you rather have the knowledge and skills and a worn out E420 or a worn out $1500 camera?

Image stabilization does help out and I like it, but having used film SLR's for 30 years without IS, I would not take a loss on a purchase in order to get it on another camera. If the choice was an E420 or E520, I would take the E520. But the 420 is a very capable camera and will take "pro level" pictures in the hands of a "pro level" photographer.

If you want to bow down to the Nikon/Canon gods and fork out a bunch more money for features you may never use, then by all means do so if it would make you sleep better. I've seen tons of folks carrying around top of the line DSLR's who never take the camera out of green mode and I have to just roll my eyes.

Would you call a 35mm Auto SLR a ’toy’ camera...?

Would you call a 35mm Auto SLR a 'toy' camera...?

The pictures from these cameras can be GREAT, they are definitely not "toy" cameras but neither are they professional cameras.

There are people who don't want anything to do with anything new, leave them to their own sad existence and embrace the modern, if the old has something to offer embrace that too! If it works use it!

At the end of the day, the camera is a tool. What it takes to capture is great image is someone with the know how using the camera!

If I wanted to get into photography, what camera should I get?

If I wanted to get into photography, what camera should I get?

Firstly, a good photographer can take photos with any camera - even a toy camera with a plastic lens.

There are so many levels at which you can "get into" photography, be it casual, amateur or professional. If you are just starting off, get an entry level DSLR, or failing that some sort of prosumer camera aimed at amateur photographers.

In the digital world, it's also a good idea to learn something about some sort of processing/image editing software. That way you will be able to control exactly how your prints will look once printed. There's no need to go all out and by something like Adobe Photoshop - you can start out with something like GIMP (which is free) and just as useful. I use it in combination with the UFRAW plugin to process raw files from my DSLR - a Canon 450d (aka digital rebel xsi). So far, I'm having so much fun with it.

Of course, you could always start off with a film camera if you really want to learn the nitty gritty of how photography actually works - film cameras are relatively cheap these days but film processing is pretty expensive. I have an old manual Russian Zenit TTL 35mm SLR ( ) which still works which I got on my 15th birthday (I'm now 43). If you get an understanding of film photography - you will definitely have an advantage when it comes to learning digital.

@ cedykeman1: you don't have to become a professional or spend $50,0000 to enjoy or even be good at photography - I've been enjoying it for most of my life without making a penny out of it, and throughout my entire life I've spent no more than a few thousand pounds on equipment.

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