Whats a top of the line camera?
 

I am going to start fucking around with some shoots and I am looking for recommendations for a good camera.

I am looking for top of line as far as image quality and so on..

Nikon Coolpix 5700. If you are lookng for features and something really fast then this is a great camera.

Image quality is nothing short of perfect!

I have the Olympus C-4000 and am absolutely in love with it. It takes FANTASTIC pictures.
I'm getting ready to purchase an Olympus C-3030 because I need a cam with a remote and many of the photographers on this board simply rave about it and can post sharp, beautiful pics that they've taken with theirs.

Whatever the largest size pic is you're planning on putting online, get a cam that will take a pic one size bigger. This way you can shrink it down and get a sharper picture.

Canon D60 is nice.

I have the Fujifilm S602 and it is very good. 3.3 MP and will go up to 6.0 with enhancing from the camera. You shooting content with it?

I shoot a Nikon D1x... top of the line for web work. For print quality I'd recommend the Kodak DCS Pro 14n. It's kicks ass. Check it out

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Canon D60 with a 28-70mm F2.8L lens will kick ass :thumbsup

While on the subject. What would you all recommend for a decent point and shoot type digital camera. Something equally good indoors as well as outdoors?

My SLR is a Nikon N90s with a Tamron 28-300mm lense. It's easy to use and takes great pictures without me having to read the manual from cover to cover. I'd like that with a digital also.

medium format: pentax
35mm: pentax for production or any major brand and leica for art
digital: olympus or nikon
video: canon (xl 1s)

Anything Nikon :)

agreed. altough that kodak dcs pro 14n looks pretty interesting. And I have only heard good things about them.

I currently bought a Nikon D100 and love it, but if I still were using my little Olympus C-3000, C-3040, and C-4040, I'd also be quite happy. (Anyone want to buy the 4040?).

By top of the line, if you want an SLR-type digital camera, you could go Nikon D100 or D1H (the D100 is by far the better value), or Canon D60, or Fuji FinePix S2 Pro, or the Sigma SD9.

If you want what might perhaps be the best digital camera around, go with a Sinar with a digital back: http://www.sinarbron.com/

However, a 2 megapixel camera is all you need for web work.

Take a look at Olympus 'camedia' line. It's still a toy but the color is great compared to the Sony in the same price range. Using a digital does have sometime getting use to it.

SLRs have a feel to them, digitals seem like a plastic toy. If you do go digital, just remember to use the viewfinder, the pics will come out better.

I agree, I have the Olympus 4040 and it kicks butt. Paid $900 for it when it first came out but I bet is probably half that now.

Canon G3 :thumbsup

Mid-range digital - Canon G2 (the whole G line is great)
Prosumer digital - Coolpix 5700, Sony F717
SLR digital - FinePix S602 is sweet...but wait for more cameras to come out with the Foveon X3 chip later this year. The new Sigma SD9 has it - but it'll still quirky. Gonna be sweet.

I've got an F717, and I like it. A little on the expensive side (comparatively), but it has a Carl Zeiss lens which is pretty sweet.

The new Canon is I'm told good, sorry do not remember the number just that it was $2,200 for the body. We use the Nikon D1X here, but I've heard the D100 is good.

But remember put a pro lens on the front of it. Use a $2000 lens you have $2000 camera pictures. :) Put a $200 lens on the front you have $200 camera pictures. :(

Nikon D100 is excellent. Figure $2K for body plus equal amount for some great lenses.

Nikon makes higher end over that, but I've looked at the output and for the cost difference the D100 will produce output indistinguishable from the models above it.

The Nikon 5700 is a great buy at $1,199. 5MP and beautiful output.

The Sigma SD9 produces dazzling pics with its revolutionary Fovean chip. However I did notice you need to photoshop most all your pics to get them tack perfect.

Canon's D60 is nice. Though overall I think Nikon images have a bit more punch over Canon.

Fuji makes a couple good cameras.

The Oympus D-20 is popular and top notch also.

But if I were to recommend any brand, Nikon is the one. They just do it right all the time and there lenses and quality are flawless.

But, at the end of the day, its all in the photographer, the eye behind the lens that matters. I've been doing photography as hobby since I was a little kid. Was the photography editor for my high school year book. Been published with my work. My point being give a great photographer even a cheap kodak instamatic and he can make you a dazzling photograph that will leave you in awe.

So if you buy a great camera, do what I did, and find a great photographer to buddy up with and learn all the tips and techniques to creating great photographs. It is an artform and you can have the most expensive camera in the world, but without photographic skils the pics won't always be works of art.

The Canon D60 has full auto that works quite well, even though I have not used the new Nikons I am sure they must be the same.

The canon D60 also has pre set "easy shooting" modes for night, action, portrait, scenic mode for background, etc....
Very easy to put the camera in and operate in these modes without reading the manual.

Digital camera reviews:

http://www.dpreview.com/

Wanton uses the Fuji FinePix S2......or something like that..... he loves it, i dunno, on this messageboard lots of conversations about cameras yet the Fuji is never mentioned.

I'm getting a Sony F717

a package similar to this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=30 017

its not the best camera, but its a great value.. besides i love Sony :)

That looks SWEET! I might check that one out man. We're looking to buy some equipment to be able to do Print work and this one is really damn nice.

Thx!:thumbsup

Top of the line:

Kodak 14n
Canon 1Ds
Canon D60
Nikon D100

Just below these....

Fuji S2
Canon D30
Nikon D1x
Olympus E20