>> |
Anonymous
>Is it just that good photographers have good cameras and that I will continue to mostly suck
Good photographers do tend to have good cameras, but if you gave James Nachtwey a cameraphone he'd walk away a Pulitzer easy. Talent is the main thing.
However, it's easier to utilize your existing talent and develop it further with good equipment- good ergonomics and manual controls.
The A570IS would be fine to learn with. Stick it into spot and center-weighted average exposure modes and learn to use them (so you actually know what's its measuring), shoot in manual mode (to build an intuitive understanding of exposure), and study all the visual art (photographs and other things like paintings) you can. And of course, photograph. That's all the best course to get better.
>>101988 Not really. You can switch lenses, but most photographers won't go outside the range offered by the zooms on point and shoots. Most won't even want to; even big, great photographers whose lens choices I know a little about just use only a few lenses, and usually one almost exclusively. Most DSLR buyers will only end up with the kit lens, and maybe one or both of a telephoto zoom and the 50/1.8.
It's harder to get a small depth of field, but that's a good thing for most types of photography.
High ISOs are crappy, but that only matters at night.
And that's about it.
|