Timeline for Will I miss anything if I replace my aging DSLR with a bridge camera?
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| Aug 29, 2016 at 17:48 | comment | added | null | @progo because as I stated in my answer, you'd be only using the zoom at its extreme ends. Why bother spending money for the focal lengths in between? Dedicated prime lenses at either end deliver better optical performance at a similar price. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 16:50 | comment | added | mike3996 | @null: why would a zoom lens be a bad idea for shooting people up close? You get nice space when you take wide angle pics and you get good isolation and bokeh with tele angles. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 14:41 | comment | added | mattdm | I don't have a full answer, but I wanted to add a detail that should be in here somewhere: you should be able to buy third-party replacement batteries for ~ 10€. This should solve your charging issue, should you decide to keep your current camera as this answer suggests. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 13:37 | comment | added | CptEric | i understand it's wrong, but it's a hard concept to catch, i'm dense on this matter. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 13:36 | comment | added | null | @CptEric this is exactly not what zoom is. You can have two cameras with the same amount of zoom, but they could both show the average man at 500m away at different sizes, because their maximum focal lengths are different. They cannot sell zoom this way because it would be plain wrong. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 13:23 | comment | added | CptEric | technically maybe not, but it's what i was refering to, AKA: "how far will i be able to shoot a thing X". i guess zoom should be sold as a distance/size measure to avoid confusion... "with this camera you can reach 2m-big eagles at up to 2KM distance", "max i can do is an average man at 500m"., etc... | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 13:14 | comment | added | mattdm | @CptEric Zoom-times on a camera does not mean "how much larger than the naked eye". It's different from binoculars. See What does 'how much zoom' mean? | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 13:11 | history | edited | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2016 at 12:37 | comment | added | CptEric | added some example pictures. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 12:21 | comment | added | CptEric | also, @null , as the linked answer says, zoom It's often interpreted as "how much larger than the naked eye can the lens show something," , that's what i interpreted as zoom. my current D70 shows things slightly smaller than the human eye with all the zoom / maginifcation / whatever full out, and when zoomed in i'd say it's okay , better than any phone because it's optical and not digital, so images aren't blurry, but not enough good to, for example, take a good quality photo of the big ben clock full-zoomed from parliament park. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 12:00 | comment | added | CptEric | thing is, i'm an amateur and almost illiterate camera-wise , most lenses are over 1/3rd of a new camera price, and i don't have the technical expertise to understand how they work and/or purchase correctly and accordingly , so that's really a brick wall. > "Eventually, you want to upgrade that dated camera.." i feel that the nikon is already outdated with only 6MP (3008 x 2000 at max settings) , and i want to find a decent replacement for it , wether it be the example shown, or any other, that matches or approaches the sony's price. i won't have 700 to spend a new reflex anytime soon. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 11:24 | history | edited | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2016 at 11:17 | history | answered | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 |