Thursday, April 2, 2009

The Best Camera Brand Rants, Ramblings, and Opinions


by Chris Campbell

Looking for the best camera brand that offers you everything in terms of photo quality, high ISO with low noise, great lenses, popular and the best cameras overall?

In this article I'll try comparing some brands that I tested at one time or another or simply would've loved to buy. I'll talk a bit about Leica/Minolta, Pentax, Olympus, Sony, Fuji, Leica/Panasonic, Minolta.

Quality of the photos. Great lenses are produced by a lot of manufacturers, including Leica/Minolta, Practika, Contax, Leica, Fuji, Pentax, Leica/Minolta, Yashica, Zeiss, Leica/Panasonic, Pentacon, Olympus and Exakta. I've tried a number of different lenses from these manufacturers and photos have been great each time. When I wanted something that had ground glass screen I chose a 55mm Zenit lens and I paid less for it than I did for a MF SLR lens (which I used only for a few photos).

If we're talking about high ISO with low noise, this isn't an area where I'm comfortable talking.

If you want to know which one has the best lenses, check the photo quality that I wrote about above.

If you're looking for the manufacturer with the biggest market share, look around the Internet and you will probably find this data.

Best camera brand overall. Now, there isn't an easy way to differentiate here. They can be the best in size, photo quality and in many other factors, but the overall best depends on what the customer needs. One example would be my Leica digital camera, which could be the best point and shoot camera if its size was a bit smaller. This is true for many other point and shoot cameras, which would be the best if one of their features was better, like having manual controls, smaller CCD's and many others. When you talk about the best camera, it's more like choosing one that will do everything you need in 9 out of 10 cases. Other than that, you can choose an Olympus DSLR and spend a lot of money on lenses, and the end result would be a great camera.

This article might confuse you even more, but this is the ultimate truth. If you want the manufacturer that offers the most innovation in their products, then you should go with Panasonic/Leica or Olympus, which is close behind. So if you want to buy a digital camera from the best camera brand, you should look at either Leica/Panasonic or Olympus and don't choose something less. If you want the best, look at only these two major brands.

Getting the perfect camera brand, is never an easy thing, especially with the way digital technology is constantly changing. Fortunately, there are plenty of helpful websites online, that can narrow down your search and help you find the camera with all the features important to you

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