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Stu · #**201** 05-02-2008

You will be able to get very good results with that, especially on a nice sunny day. With care they will be 90% as good as anyting you can get no matter how much you spend.

Good photos are not about the hardware, they are about how you use it.

mole2k · #**202** 05-02-2008

The cheaper camera's often work fine when used with the middle territorys and you dont require rapid AF.

With good light, pre-focusing on spots and a bit of practice you should be able to take very good shots with that camera. Expensive digital slr's dont particularily take better pictures they just make the process of taking photos easier, untill you get to the extremes of the scale, low light performance, needing fast AF, etc.

martboy21 · #**203** 05-02-2008

cheers for the feedback,really appreciate it, so shall i go for that or is there any thing else.

what about this?looks a bit cheap? any suggestions?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-12MP-DIGIT...QQcmdZViewItem

jimmy · #**204** 05-02-2008

no, that camera is certainly crap. I used a Fuji before I got a DSLR and it was good - but the fuji you listed is a world better. like has been said don't expect too much indoors - we all hate taking photos indoors.

martboy21 · #**205** 05-02-2008

these are from eden park winter warmer round five after a cropped and edited

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7908

the originals which are alot worse are here

http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/j...t=DSCF1445.jpg

please let me know if i can improve with the kodak one i first listed,cheers for input,if i went to jessops or currys the would just tell me sales bullshit so i really do appreciate it.!

Stu · #**206** 06-02-2008

I assume they were taken with a compact camera, if so they they are not too bad at all.

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Originally Posted by martboy21

......................let me know if i can improve with the kodak one i first listed........

Fuji?

If you get a Fuji S9500 and spend some time setting it up properly you'll get much better stuff -

rcracer · #**207** 06-02-2008

i took these with a fuji s6500fd ..indoors hard work but much better outdoors..

..looking at getting something a bit more advanced later this year.

telboy · #**208** 08-02-2008

Marty, I started last year with a Fuji s9600. It was ok outdoors, but indoors you just could even get near a decent set-up. You just had to use the best set-up you could get and just hope you got some nice pics out of it.

These were taken with the Fuji -http://www.telsshells.com/ne_regionals_-_durham.htm

Like I say it was ok outside.

I had it for about 4 month and then got a Canon 400D...much, much better, especially indoors. I just need to get a zoom lens for it now....cheap.

The good thing with the fuji was the movie capture mode. That was quite impressive for a stills camera. I did this with the movie mode http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gFqPAZ0yhMo

martboy21 · #**209** 09-02-2008

completely forgot a
bout me posting in this thread!

after a long thought i realised im no photographer but i do want take better pics

i also cant afford 400 quid or let alone 200 at the mo so went for this

i got it 150 deliverd

josh_smaxx · #**210** 09-02-2008

Id love a DSLR, i have the fuji S6500 and do alot of indoor racing photography and feel that i could benifit from a 400D or what ever (cough*5D*cough) but i cant eve afford that for christmas or birthdays even if i didnt need certain racing gear more.

Marty: first thing you want for that is a 58mm UV filter to protect the lense, only about £12 and it'll protect the fixed lense from scratches, piece of mind.

mole2k · #**211** 09-02-2008

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martboy21 · #**212** 09-02-2008

very impressed,you have great talent!

mole2k · #**213** 09-02-2008

Thanks

Those where taken about a 2min walk from my house down at the Castle.

P_B · #**214** 11-02-2008

Mole, that first one with the picnic bench seems choc full of colour and contrast - have you been playing with HDR? Nice place to have just a couple of minutes away!

Typically, the first decent weekend of the year and I get sod all* photography done whilst Jimmy and Stu are only at a bleedin' rally. Invite next time please chaps!

*When I say sod all, I mean 'not much'...

and an earlier '08 shot, just 'cos I like it:

Stu · #**215** 11-02-2008

They are proper 'Byrom's', especially the mill in the mill-pond. With the vapour-trails it's very old & new.

mole2k · #**216** 12-02-2008

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Originally Posted by P_B

Mole, that first one with the picnic bench seems choc full of colour and contrast - have you been playing with HDR? Nice place to have just a couple of minutes away!

All those last shots are HDR to some degree, A fair few of the rallys shots have been hdr'd too. I would use it very subtly on quite a lot of shots of mine as a way of generally boosting the contrast. I quite often put the original colours back on a hdr that i've done but keep the contrast changes, or if im feeling like some ultra colours I use 'soft light' instead of 'colour' on the layers.