What Camera do you use?

[NeilP]

Loads of excellent piccies to see - mine, they normally come out focused on the plant behind, the tank wall or the fish have gone by the time the pictures taken!

Time to ask Santa for a new one so.......

What camera do you use?

I suppose this could be a poll, but not sure how to do that.......

 

[aquarius]

i have Canon and used it to take my pics. i think it works great

 

[elgecko]

I use a Sony 707 and love it.
Mine will also take out of focus pictures. The fish swimming, slow shutter speeds, and time for the lens to focus will often cause out of focus shots. When I take pictures of my fish I usually use the manual focus. It helps alot.
Here's a few shots I've taken with my camera.

 

[dxgardner]

I use a Kodak, pretty run of the mill, but produces great pics for a standard digital

 

[dxgardner]

elgecko
Your pics are proof that you get what you pay for, Outstanding

 

[Alien_spawn]

I have a Nikon 4500

 

[Sinuhe]

The camera that I get to borrow from time to time is a Canon Powershot G2, and it's great. It's over a year old, so there are probably newer ones available by now, but this one has a lot of options, and apart from not having interchangable lenses, it's got pretty much everything a non-professional photographer could ask for, at least for the most common needs.

My own camera is a Nikon, with 3 different lenses. That's a very good one, too, but sadly I haven't been doing much traditional photography anymore.

 

[david27]

For all my fish pics on the forum I used my fuji S5000 Digital I also think ken G W use's one and his pics turn out well.

David

 

[thecichlidaddict]

I use the Canon Powershot A70 myself. You can't go wrong with the canon lense, plus this camera has a wide range of usability, ranging from fully automatic to fully manual, giving room for growth with avid entry level photographers. In addition this camera supports extra filters, including a telephoto that doubles the zoom capability, and close up lenses, which just happen to come in handy for fish. If I have a complaint it's that the flash is too close to the lense, causing redeye in people shots, but most small sized cameras have the same problem, so really I have no complaints. It's a fantastic camera at a very reasonable price.

If you really want a camera that has less manual control because you really just like to point and shoot, then I think the Nikon coolpix is an excellent lineup of digi cams.

 

[Cian McLiam]

As David said, I now use a Fuji S5000z and Im very happy with it. A lot of the pics on the forum were taken with a Sony P71, but the Fuji is much much more flexible and Im building up a collection of filters for it.

Its got 10x optical zoom so extra lenses is not an issue, I find zoom pretty unreliable and hard to work with when taking photos of moving fish anyway. I think you get much better results taking a focus reference point and then moving the camera in and out to get the fish in proper focus. I find auto-focus on most digicams is just too slow for the job.

You cant get external flash for it tho, which is a real pity, but with a bit of practice you can get good results with the onboard.

You can see some example pics from this camera and the Sony at my gallery HERE I think most of the pics have the camera model under it so you can compare.

Ken

 

[andyt_uk]

i used to use a kodak dc210+ one of the first digital camera generally available around 4 or 5 years ago and paid over 400 UKP for it
i just upgraded a couple of weeks ago to another kodak, the dx6340 at only 160 UKP and knocks spots off the 210
its still a fairly basic model, i prefer to use the macro mode for fish porttraits, but like ken says, take a focus reference point and move the camera to get a fish in focus.
once you get used to the half press to focus on the shutter, and full press to take the pic you can get some good shots, you also get a limited amount of control over aperture, shutter speed, exposure time, or relative speed of film

 

[david27]

One thing I didn't ask was if you wanted digital or film, IMO film still has quality advantages, plus certain amount of excitement waiting for your film to come back from developing. But digital is much more convienient.

Daivd

 

[NeilP]

I'm looking at digital mainly because it gives you more flexability with the photos after you have taken them, re-prints are free and i'm too lazy and impatient to wait for the film to be devleloped!

The main thing with most of the cameras mentioned here is the manual focus....

I'll try Ken and Andy's tip on half press the button, focus on fish and then take the picture. Failing that its up to Santa.

I'll post my next pics with whichever suceeded!

Thanks for all the input

 

[freshmike]

Kodak CX-4300....very basic...but better than what I had...