I'm looking to buy a new Digital Camera that is up to around $300ish that can take decent night photos (something my old camera couldn't do that I was annoyed with). If anyone could recommend types of cameras to get (and even those to stay away from) it would be of great help! Thanks all.
All you need is a Digital Camera with the flash capability. I highly recommend the Sony Cybershot with 12.1 megapixels. I hope this helped you.
Answer by napkindude on 13 Jan 2010 09:22:56All P&S cameras have many limitations, amongst the worst of them are shutterlag and low light issues.
They all have a lot of noise on higher ISO, although some are worse than others (e.g. every Olympus I have ever touched was terrible in low light).
If this really matters to you, you'll need to go way past your $300 budget and get a DSLR.
Also, there are other things you can do to improve the situation. Use a tripod and lower ISO whenever possible, and learn about photography and your camera.
Apparently you really don't know much about low light photography. Low light photography, above the point and shoot style cameras is about the photographer, not about the camera.
If you have a camera at $300 your in the dirt because you have no control over shutter or aperture.
An SLR will give you that control. The rest is up to you.
Photography is defined as "drawing or painting with light" so in low-light you have three choices: add more light by using a flash or other artificial light sources or use a DSLR with a fast 50mm f1.4 lens and a higher ISO or use the camera on a tripod and make a long exposure. Digital cameras aren't magical. They obey the same rules of exposure as a 30 year old 35mm film camera.
You really need to take a couple of photography classes.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1/B 10MP "Exmor R" CMOS Digital Camera with 5x Optical Steady Shot Stabilized Zoom and 2.7-inch LCD
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I'm somewhat puzzled after reading several of the poor reviews for this camera. I've had this camera since the beginning of October, and I've taken a number of shots under various conditions, day and night. In some cases the results, day and night, were outstanding. In other cases they were less so. In no case have I had the problems described by those who have given the camera one, two or even three stars.
Now I suppose that it could simply be the case that my standards are lower than those writing strongly negative reviews. However, while not a "pixel peeper", I do care about the quality of the image. My first camera was a Leica M2 that my grandfather gave to me. What a great camera. I spent a lot of happy days taking pictures with that camera. The prints that I developed were, imho, better than anything I've seen come out of a less than ultra high end DSLR. The Leica M2 was followed by a series of Nikon and Olympus SLR's. I was still shooting film when the Digital age rolled around. Until the WX1 my only concession to the Digital shift was a FujiPix F30. It's a fun camera, but I wanted something smaller for casual shooting. When I can afford it, I'll get a DSLR to replace the SLR's.
All of this is to say that I have some experience with photography, although I would not in any way consider myself a "serious" photographer. Measured in terms of that experience, the WX1 is a very good camera for its purposes. I bought it as a pocket camera that could take quality pictures, day or night. So far, that expectation has been satisfied. I also bought it for the HD video which I haven't tried out yet.
I've been wondering whether my relative lack of familiarity with recent model Digital cameras may explain the difference between my experience with the WX1 and the experience of others. When my grandfather gave me his camera, he emphasized that among the things that I needed to know in order to take good pictures was how the camera worked. I spent a lot of time familiarizing myself with the workings of the Leica. This made a big difference in the quality of the pictures that I took. Accordingly, before using the WX1, I downloaded and read the manuals in their entirety, trying to familiarize myself with the camera's resources (of which there are quite a few and limits (of which there are also quite a few). I still haven't figured out how best to use the WX1, but I learned for, example, that turning the DRO on or off made a substantial difference in IQ, as did learning the idiosyncracies of the white balance and the various settings that were automatically set in the various camera modes. I would say, and this may be a mark against it for many people, that the WX1 is not a "point and shoot" camera unless one is familiar with its workings, but when I read the negative comments I wonder if some of the issues complained of could be addressed through a better understanding of the camera. I been following several threads on the WX1 at an online camera forum. The complaints were loud and long about the picture quality of the WX1 daytime shots. Photos were posted that looked really bad. Photos were posted that looked really good. Most were the work of apparently accomplished photographers. Finally someone complained that the camera wouldn't shoot over 800 in the handheld nighttime setting. Someone else said that they had no problem shooting at higher speeds in that setting. It turned out that the the problem was that in one case (the no greater than 800 case), the DRO was on. It also turned out that with the DRO turned off, many of the problems with the IQ of daytime shots were addressed. This doesn't mean that someone with all the knowledge in the world of the camera's capabilities and all the skill in the world at taking photographs might not conclude that they found shots taken with the WX1 were unacceptable. "De gustibus non est disputandum". It also may be the case that someone might feel that taking a lot of time to figure out the workings of a camera is a waste of time. Still, this camera seems to me to have a lot of functionality that makes it worth the time learning how to use it properly.
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