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Mama-Paige In reply to eagle79 [2006-10-17 02:47:59 +0000 UTC]

I use a Nikon N75 35mm with a 20-90 Quantaray lens with a UV filter. I'm looking into going Digital probably a simple point and shoot for a while until I get used to the viewfinders on them. Then read up until I'm okay enough to warrant the Nikon D50 or D70 I want.

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eagle79 In reply to Mama-Paige [2006-10-17 04:01:28 +0000 UTC]

Surprisingly, the viewfinders don't take much to get used to. EVFs are basically worthless, but the LCDs can free up your shooting, since you don't have to hold them next to your face. They're a bit of a liability in bright sunlight, though. That's my biggest complaint with my Lumix, which has only and LCD and an EVF. In bright enough sunlight, it's hard to do more than ensure the subject is in the frame. Fine tuning composition or focus is basically beyond all hope. But probably 90% of the time that isn't a problem, unless you do a lot of shooting at noon on the beach.

Of course the D70/D50's wouldn't have this problem, since they have optical viewfinders...

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Mama-Paige In reply to eagle79 [2006-10-19 03:19:06 +0000 UTC]

I had a friend once say "Paige is only truly adventurous with the camera in her hands". I hung half way off a cliff once to try to capture the water at the bottom, and I'm scared of heights. It's more than a viewfinder to me. It's a window to look through that makes the scary less frightening and the revolting less disgusting.

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eagle79 In reply to Mama-Paige [2006-10-19 03:33:32 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm... then you may want to skip the point and shoot altogether... Most completely lack an optical viewfinder anymore, and I think you'll find an EVF pure hell.

Using the LCD does take some getting used to. But given what the viewfinder means to you and does for you, it seems to me that you'll never be happy with just the LCD. I say go straight for the SLR (I'll certainly be envious as hell ).

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Mama-Paige In reply to eagle79 [2006-10-19 03:40:30 +0000 UTC]

Can't do that at the moment. Single Mom...Full time Student. I'm banking on the new camera being a Christmas gift. So I'm looking for something to get used to Digital but not too expensive. I figure worst case, I stick with my 35mm and only take the digital camera out for club nights.

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eagle79 In reply to Mama-Paige [2006-10-19 03:54:17 +0000 UTC]

I can certainly understand that... I'm outta school with a so-called "real" job (for about three years now), and I'm still only beginning to think that a dSLR might be an option. Still, I'm probably going to have to hold out for another year or so... *sigh*

Anyhow, good luck with it. The biggest difference between digital and film in my experience is that you're not paying for every shot. It takes some of the guilt out of taking 40-50 shots in the course of a few hours The downside is that it's tempting to spend less time thinking about shots (framing, composition, exposure, DOF, etc). When you shoot film, you frame and reframe, adjust and readjust exposure, etc. long before you finally hit the shutter release because you know the film cost you something and so might the prints/development.

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