I wanted to know what would be the best professional digital camera?

Also, I would like it to not use disposable batteries, but rechargeable battery pack.
Sorry i didn’t place better details, i want to take more artistic images, my budget would be 1000 down, Anything else i don’t really know, not really done a lot of photography work, but want to get started, thankyou

Answer by Paul Hxyz
The best? The Panavision “Genesis”. You can rent them for $ 5,000 a week and an operator will cost you $ 800 a day plus expenses.

Or try the “Red” series of cameras. They are also not cheap but Peter Jackson is going to use one to shoot “The Hobbit” so it is no slouch of a camera. They usually start at around $ 15,000 not together with accessories, lenses, etc.

You need to set a budget as to how much you are willing to pay and then re-post your question. If you can afford it the Sony XDCAM EX-3 is fantastic – it is used by USC Film School. They cost about $ 8,400 with a nice zoom lens on it. Set your budget, then question again. Some TV shows are shot on Canon DSLR cameras – your needs and your budget determine the answer to this question.

Answer by B.E.I.
The “BEST” is subject to personal opinion. IMO…a Hasselblad H4D-60, a Nikon D3x, or a Canon 1Ds Mark III would be considered the best, but you are talking $ 6,500-$ 30,000 without any lenses.

If you meant a digital camera with interchangable lenses (DSLR), then you can find entry level cameras from Nikon or Canon starting about $ 550 (including a “kit” lens).

Since this is your first DSLR camera, you will doubtless start off export a “kit”. That will naturally include the camera, one or two lenses, a battery, and sometimes include a memory card.

I would suggest a camera case, an extra battery, and extra memory cards in anticipation of you really know your camera and then you can start considering different lenses.

The best thing to do is visit an actual camera store (not an electronics store) and handle all of the different brands and models within your budget. Nikon and Canon make nice cameras.

You want a camera that feels excellent in your hands, with simple to find/use controls. Some cameras are bulkier than others, some are heavier than others. Only you will know which one feels right, and in a camera store you can walk around with it shooting photos instead of being tethered to a table (plus the camera store employees are more familiar with the different brands and can answer your questions/concerns). A lot of camera stores also offer camera classes for free when you buy the camera there.

Answer by Rob Nock
Hi Dan,

You might want to qualify your question a bit. Here is a link to a list of professional grade digital cameras that are generally considered among the best available but I am guessing this is not what you want…

http://www.adorama.com/catalog.tpl?op=itemlist&cat1=Cameras%20%26%20Lenses&cat2=Medium%20Format%20Film%20%26%20Digital%20Cameras&cat3=Cameras&feature1=Hasselblad&feature1=Mamiya&feature1=Period%20One&sf=Price&st=de

If this is not what you want then describe the types of pictures you wish to take and give a general budget range of what you can afford to spend. You will get a much more comprehensive answer after you figure that out.

Hope that helps.

Answer by Scott
Best for what kind of photography? A Hasselblad can’t be beat in a studio, but would be a waste of time on the sidelines shooting a football game.

You need to be much more specific.

Answer by mister-damus
Get an entry level (also renowned as “budget” or “consumer-level”) digital SLR camera.

As others have stated, they also sell professional and “pro-sumer” digital SLRs, but they are more expensive and do the same thing as the cheaper models.

Look at the different brands and read different reviews and then choose for yourself which one you want.

Also, don’t forget that “artistic images” is subjective (one person’s art is another person’s garbage). After all people take “artistic” pictures with a cheap $ 60 lomo camera. Excellent quality images will be up to you.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Football: Jets-v-Eagles, Sep 2009 – 11


Image by Ed Yourdon
Note: this photo was in print in an undated (Oct 2010) Lens-BH blog with the same title as the heading that I place on this Flickr page. It was also in print in an undated (late Nov 2010) Digital Camera Super Shop blog, titled "Three Digital Camera Lenses You Aren't Export ? but Should!"

Moving into 2011, the photo was in print in an undated (late Jan 2011) blog titled "Advantages Of Digital Photography And Why You Should Use Digital Photography?"

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I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that, in anticipation of last night, I had never been to a professional football game in my life. Baseball, basketball, and tennis: yes, of course. High-school and college football games: sure, though that was a long time ago. Indeed, the last college football game I watched (in person) was in the mid-60s, when I was invited to the annual Harvard-Yale game by a Radcliffe student I had begun dating — a enhancement to which my MIT college roommate reacted, in shock, by weep, "Radcliffe? You’re dating a Cliffie? She must be a pig!" After which he pulled out his flute, each time he thought she might be present when he returned to our off-campus apartment building, and played "Ancient McDonald Had a Farm" in anticipation of he collapsed in gales of laughter on the stairwell. Highly inaccurate, I hasten to note, and really unfair. But I go off on a tangent…

Anyway, a freelance writer, Mitch Ligon (whose photo you can see here in one of my Flickr sets), invited me to accompany him last night to the New York Jets – Philadelphia Eagles game out in the New Jersey Meadowlands — another first-time experience. I was given a photographer’s press pass, which gave me access to the locker rooms, press box, various other "inner sanctum" locations … and, most vital, the football field itself. I was given a red jersey to wear, told to stay outside the yellow dashed shape that ring the field, and turned loose for the evening. I felt somewhat imperfect, because I knew that the "real" professional photographers would be equipped with high-cameras and monstrous telephoto lenses beyond anything I had ever touched, or could possibly afford; and even though my Nikon D300 and 70-300mm zoom lens is honestly respectable in amateur circles, I had no thought if I would be able to take any decent photos at all…

The other conundrum is that I know small or nothing about the nuances of football, beyond the obvious fact that the quarterback either passes the ball, or hands off to someone who attempts to run the ball downfield. Punts and field-goal kicks are also a familiar concept, but if you don’t have a excellent anticipatory sense of who is about to do what to whom, it’s simple to miss the "moment" when the perfect shot might be available. Also, I didn’t really know anything about the players, aside from the respective star quarterbacks: Philadelphia’s controversial Michael Vick, and New York’s newly-named starting quarterback, Mark Sanchez. I had looked at the team rosters on the Internet before the game, so at least I knew their jersey facts (#6 for Sanchez, and #7 for Vick, as you’ll see in the photos) — but the "action" was often so far away (at the other end of the field) that I couldn’t tell whether the starting quarterback, or one of the substitutes, was making the plays.

Nevertheless, by the beginning of the second quarter I was feeling a small more comfortable — if only because I found it simple to follow along behind the other professional photographers as they marched (or ran) from one end of the field to the other, in order to get their equipment set up for what they expected would be the next fantastic shot. By the end of the game, I had taken 1,100+ photos, including numerous of Michael Vick in a post-game locker-room interview; and from the signal of the clickety-click-clack of my fellow photographers, I could tell that many of them had taken numerous thousand. I’ll spare you the technical details of my feeble attempts to get some decent shots; I had picked up some excellent tips from the sports-photography chapter of Scott Kelby’s Digital Photography, and I did my best within the limitations of my equipment and my lack of familiarity with the situation.

What impressed me most about the whole experience was the extent of modern professional football — the extent of everything. It’s one thing to read that there are 80,000 people in a football stadium; it’s another thing to really be there and hear the simultaneous roar of those 80,000 people as a quarterback is sacked or a long pass is completed. It’s one thing to read that a professional football player is 6 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 350 pounds; it’s another thing to stand next to numerous dozen such giants. Heck, I thought there were only 20 or 30 such giants on each team; I had no thought that there were 64 of them (a digit which will be pared down as the pre-season comes to an end), or that there might be 20-30 different coaches. And then there are the hundreds of "staff members" scurrying around all over the house, carrying out their various duties and assignments; and there are the security guards and State Police, who spent most of the time scanning the stadium crowd rather than watching the players, most likely watching for scuffles or fights or … well, who knows what. There are cheerleaders too, in this case bearing the authoritative name of New York Jets Flight Crew; I had expected half a dozen, but there were two dozen playful, long-haired beauties, with permanently frozen smiles, who who danced and pranced before the crowd at each conceivable opportunity.

All of this has resulted in the photos you’ll see in this album. I had to rub out roughly a hundred of my original images, because they were out of focus, or because a referee chose to walk in front of my camera at the incorrect moment; and another 900 were "okay," but not terribly exciting. I’m sure that none of them are as crisp, sharp, and well-composed as those taken by the Sports Illustrated photographer and the other professionals on the field; but I did end up with 72 "keepers" that I hope you’ll delight in…

… and, yes, I doubtless will attend another football game or two in the being ahead. Whether I’m lucky enough to get down on the field again is anyone’s estimate….

i am not talking about the slim cameras that is like 5 to 8 megapixels. i am talking about those bulky black cameras that has interchangeable lens or sometimes none.

and what is the difference between those two? the slim one and the bulky black ones?

Answer by Mommy 2 Be (8-15-08)
Canon Rebel

Answer by Ms. B
Canon 5D… over $ 2000 but it is the best they have.

Answer by Jacko
Holy cow thats a loaded question. Digital SLR’s (professional) range in price from $ 400.00 to over $ 50K. I own a Nikon D200 and like it. With digital slr’s, you can control all aspects of the picture taking process: you can look thru the lens to frame your pics, you get to choose automatic or manual for most all the crucial settings, pick and choose lenses. The list goes on and on….. Just remember, the more features, the steeper the learning curve. I prefer Nikon because it has the leading digit of users and a huge support group but all the major high-end brands offer the same features. You will have to try them out and then choose. Standard Photography does a excellent job of evaluating, look at their reports.

Answer by Clueless 2
for “cheaper” professional go with the canon rebel(around $ 500)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007QKN22?ie=UTF8&tag=marartpla-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007QKN22

Answer by Anna
The “bulky black ones” are DLSR and they are much higher quality and also have a lot more options.

It’s hard to tell you which one is the “best”. It really depends on what you would use it for. But for a beginner I would recommend a Canon Rebel. Sony Alpha is also really excellent.

You really should learn more about DSLR and get a feel for different ones before you really buy one. If you’re really attracted in photography I would take classes.

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