Digital Slr Or Compact Camera You Decide?

One of my hobbies is photography. Now I\'m noseen to be believed. At 10.1MP you have a serious
professional but I enjoy taking good professionalcamera that gives you nigh on professional results.
quality photos. I had to weigh up whether to goMany Professionals that have the top end of the
for a compact digital camera or a Digital SLR. ICanon EOS range at £5,000 plus would tell you
was fortunate back in the eighties to own adifferent. Remember they have to justify the
35mm SLR camera. The picture quality was£5000 plus price tag so they will find the tiniest
fantastic. Much better than that of a compactdetail different but to you and me the pictures
camera. The ability to alter settings and changelook near enough the same.
lenses to pull subjects closer or move them away I went to Turkey in the summer and the
was far superior to that of the compact 35mmpictures I took with my camera I could never
camera.Fast forward to today and not a lot hashave achieved with a compact camera. The
changed. The Digital compact cameras quality hasscenery was a photographers dream and I
gained a great deal on the Digital SLR but is stillmanaged to fill the 4GB card with top quality
behind, in my opinion.pictures. The ability to capture in RAW is also a
 Both benefit in the fact you can see the resultbonus fo the semi-serious photographer. With
instantly after the shot has been taken but theRAW there is no compression like with JPEG and
DLSR is far superior in the ability to change thatit\'s as it says the RAW picture.You have the
shot, on the spot and in so many ways. One thingoption to change the white balance when your
with the compacts is the lack of depth of field.back on the computer. Yes you can bodge it up
You take the picture and the whole picture will trywhen it\'s a JPEG but is no where near as
it\'s best to be in focus. With DSLR you can haveeffective as RAW. Give it go yourself.
the subject in focus and blur the background The darkroom side of it is up to you. I use
which creates very simple but effective results.IAdobe Photoshop. It cost approx £500 but is
use a DSLR - Canon EOS 400D. I have had thiswhat the pros use. There are loads of magazines
for 18 months so has now been surpassed in theout there with tips on how to use Photoshop but
Canon range. It doesn\'t have \'Live View\' whichI recommend getting a decent book on it. It is a
means you have to compose the shot throughhuge piece of software but you can make
the view finder. However the newer Canons havedreamy portraits and Andy Warhole popart with a
this now. It came with a 18mm-55mm standardlittle practice and tuition. There is also Photoshop
Canon lens but also in the package was a TamronElements for under £100 but I understand that
200mm Zoom Lens. I bought a Lowepro Slingshotthis is a scaled down version of the Professional
A100W bag and SanDisk 4GB Compact Flashversion and would be good for the begginer to
Card, separately.intermediate.
Out of the box you can stick it on auto and Your friends and family might scoff at you with
never leave that setting if you want to. Howeveryour bigger camera and bag and some might say
this defeats the object of having so much power\'what do you want all that for when you can get
and scope over your shots by using the autoa camera that fits in your pocket\'. Believe me
setting. Remember it\'s digital so you canwhen they see your laptop slideshow through an
experiment over and over again with differentHDTV they will be green with envy and
settings until you get it bang on. If you were toclambering to copy your photos or even buy
leave it on auto forever you might as well buy athem.
compact camera.The clarity of the shot has to be