Best camera

Check out the Canon sure shot line. Their weather proof and good quality. I am no expert in photography but I can speak from experience about the canon.

Several people have had discussions on what type of camera to buy. I agree the Canon is a good line to look at. I would suggest draw up a list of how you want to use the camera. When you talk to someone in a store about buying a camera you will have a point of refrence to tell them what you want to do with the camera. I would also check out sites that review cameras. One I use is www.dpreivew.com

do you mean film? because a lot of cameras have the capasity to have manual controls.

I've always thought you were Pinay but I had to check your profile first before replying.

I took up Photography in 1998 or 1999 and a really good place to take it is at the Ramon Magsaysay Vocational School... a night school at the public school of Ramon Magsaysay near UST in Manila. Back then, we only paid 50pesos for the tuition fee. It was 2 days a week at night. You will learn everything you will need in that class. Those seminars that costs thousands of pesos will not cover everything you need to know about photography.

A good place to buy a manual camera is in Quiapo, Hidalgo Street. Film and developing is also affordable there.

I was thinking the same way you did when I took up photography, that maybe someday I could do it for a living. I had dreams of having my own studio but I never had capital so I didn't. Photography is a very expensive hobby but if you get lucky and have the talent, you can be very well compensated. Goodluck to you!

If you are going to enrol in a photography class you will need an SLR camera. Digital SLR cameras are very expensive, several thousand dollars for the body only and then at least $1000 for a good lens. Then you have all your accessories like tripod, bag, cleaning gear, shutter remote release etc.

If you can not afford a good digital setup, I suggest you look on eBay for 35mm SLR equipment. As most professionals are upgrading to digital they are selling their 35mm gear cheap on eBay.

I recently bought a Canon T90, a range of lenses and a shutter release for a few hundred dollars. A similar digital setup would have cost me thousands.

Best of luck with your photography class.

If you're taking classes, you're going to need an SLR, or single lens reflex. Personally, I prefer the Canon Rebel line, i've got a film and a digital rebel. In my photography classes at school, people had nikons, minoltas, pentax, and some others. Basically, for film, one's as good as the others. Canon and Nikon duke it out for who has the sharpest lens, but they all make very sharp photos. If you're looking for a digital camera, I think Canon currently has the sharpest lens, and for digital it makes more of a difference than for film. As far as resolution goes, if you want good 8x10s, you'll need at least 6.8 megapixels, which'll cost you over 600$. For a starter, i'd go with film. It's cheaper and sturdier.

That's actually a hard question to answer because the specs will vary enormously depending on the budget you have set aside to buy the camera. If you want to be able to use manual settings you should opt for either a bridge camera which is between a point and click digital camera and an SLR, or go for an SLR. I would strongly recommend that you purchase a camera magazine and head off to the reviews section to see how the different models shape up. Generally the more money you have to spend the more you'll get, although that may depend on the brand too, since sometimes you pay for the name. The more mega-pixels the better and the more optical zoom the better. You could probably pick up a manual analgoue film camera off ebay or specialist photography shops but you'll find it harder to work with the pictures, for example you'd need to scan them to get them on the pc rather than simply plugging the camera into a usb port and uploading that way.

In regards to buying the best camera I would recommend Polaroid or Kodak as I have always used these kind of camera and found them the best otherwise they would not have been around this long, and as for the common digital camers I have not tried one of these so that is why I recommend the above, especially if you wanted to earn some money as a photographer