Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Have money, buy one!

Well, it's not quite as simple as that. It's not long back when I posted about D80 and longed for it. I wished I had money to buy it ASAP. Now I actually got the money (Thanks to Aaditya), but I am not able to make up my mind.

There are lot of confusions.

May be I have read too many reviews of 40D.

:-/

I wish I could hire somebody to carry the whole D80 (or any other DSLR for that matter) kit wherever I go. I have seen Chandra lugging around his big camera bag and I can't picture myself doing it. Aaditya has outright refused to help in that matter. Suddenly, lightweight cameras make so much sense.

I want to take my camera wherever I am able to go. On top of the mountain... in the rain... under water... everywhere. Pentax Optio makes me reconsider the purchase of any DSLR.

Lastly I don't know if I really need DSLR. I like to take pictures and I sometimes feel that if I had a better camera, I could take better pictures. But lately photos on flickr has forced me to think otherwise. There are some really awesome pictures taken with my current camera.

3 comments:

Moonjungle said...

You have accurately described my predicament in this post :)
I'm still using an Olympus (not digital) for the past 10 years and haven't clicked a snap with it for the past 4 years. There is nothing wrong with the old chap still a good performer. But developing & printing is actually expensive. Going digital makes sense. Getting an SLR makes even more sense. But the dang thing is too bulky to carry around on a daily basis. I think something sleeker is always better if your not into hardcore photography. As for me I just want to snap up references at pretty high resolutions, so am saving up for something worth less than its weight.

Mridul said...

vipin selected a olympus 7 mega pixel camera for me ... and it still works great - when i rarely use it that is !

enjoy your vacation ... i mean, work from H :-D and take some neat pics !

Alex Schroeder said...

I recently switched from a very small camera (Exilim) to a much bigger SLR (Pentax K110D). What can I say? It's a drag to carry. It looks more valuable than a small camera, so I'm more afraid of being robbed. The quality of my pictures has not increased dramatically. It has increased because I have a much better resolution. But had I bought a new model of a small camera, I would have reaped the same benefit.

My suggestion: Don't do it.