What's a good camera for taking GOOD photography ?

Question:I'm still a beginner at this but, i want to know what other
high quality cams are good to buy. Not too expensive tho.

For taking pictures such as this...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2066/1952...
^^ Note: I did not take that picture, i just needed an example.

Anyone know any particular brands & types of cameras that
are good ? HELP PLEASE & TY. [:

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm still a beginner at this but, i want to know what other
high quality cams are good to buy. Not too expensive tho.

For taking pictures such as this...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2066/1952...
^^ Note: I did not take that picture, i just needed an example.

Anyone know any particular brands & types of cameras that
are good ? HELP PLEASE & TY. [:

You can do that shot with a non-DSLR digital camera that has a manual feature like an Olympus SP 350 (8 mp) prices around $250. The cheapest DSLR I saw is for $480 it includes 2g SD card and it's a Nikon (Nikon D40 6.1MP 2.5" - 2.5 Frames Per Second 18-55mm Lens Advanced 3-Area AF System Light and Compact DSLR.... at COSTCO.COM http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.asp... ). Nikon are pretty good cameras. However, for that price you will only get 6.1 mp, and unless you are going to be blowing them up more than 16 x 20 then I would suggest one with higher mp - but more mp it has, the more you have to spend. A Canon
Rebel XTi 10.1MP 2.5" 3 Frames per Second EF-S 18-55mm Lens for $630 at COSTCO.COM. If you're starting, I'd go with the NIKON cause, when you are ready to go to the next steps, I'm sure they are going to get cheaper as they usually are with computers and electronics. Both Nikon and Rebel are AF, if you must know. You can see it at the sites anyway. Get your self also a good book so it will help you, and photography classes.

Get Olympus, don't get Sony.

Vivitar cameras never fail

Cheap and good would be a Nikon F3 or a Hasselblad 500 C/M.

If you are interested in pixels it is hard to beat the Canon Digital Rebel or Nikon D70s for pure "bang for the buck".

To answer your question in the broadest sense, a good photo can be taken with a pinhole camera to a state of the art 11x14 view camera.

It is NOT THE CAMERA, it is the person behind the camera.

I have know people with the most god awful equipment that take wonderful photo's to people with state of the art camera's with all the whistles and bells who have trouble taking a photo of toilet paper (metaphor intended)

I have said this a thousand times, there are a million photographs within 20 feet of your front door. Learn to find them.

My web site, below, most of those photo's were taken with a point and shoot Canon A640, a 10mp beauty that I simply love because it is unobtrusive, easy to use, and does what I want 95% of the time. If I need something more powerful, then I clean off the dust of my Fuji FinePix S2, slap on a lens and go to town.

Source:
50 years of photo experience from being a rank amateur to a pro.

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I would say look at either Canon or Nikon, as they offer the biggest selection of newer, updated lenses. For entry level cameras, the Nikon D40 and now D60 are hard to beat. The Canon XSi has new and better features, however, it's build quality is yet to be seen. You see, one of the major flaws of the Rebel series is its poor build quality. If this is an issue, Nikon is the way to go. Of course, if you're going to spend that kind of money for the XSi, this also brings the better Nikon D80 into the picture. This camera great, and has loads of features. Don't get lost in the whole mega pixel difference. It's really not noticeable.

You'll also need to look for the lenses. Canon offers a whole host of entry level lenses. Nikon does as well, but only AF-S lenses will auto focus with the D40/D40x and now the D60. If this will be a problem, the D80 would be your best bet.

I stand by my Canon XT. It is the 8 mp DSLR and I love it. It has come down a lot in price since the 10+mp has come out. If you have myspace, you can check out some samples that I have at: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cf...

For beginner I hardly recommend Nikon D40. I started with that camera and it was very easy to use and understand about DSLR for amateur. The only bad thing about D40 is that no lens motor in body means non-AF-S/AF-I lenses are manual focus only. But it's kit lens is good (can't say that about Nikon 350/400D) and it takes good quality pictures and is very compact.

Some decent recommendations here, I will just add that no matter what you get, YOU are going to have to make EFFORT to learn and use it properly. You CANNOT just put it in AUTO and get great photos... no matter what the general public thinks. Good photography is an ART, and even though newer cameras try to "do it all", they cannot come close to equaling what an artist USING the camera can do.

So invest some time in yourself to learn, and it will pay you dividends forever!

steve