a great camera for photography?

To get a good picture we normally say it is the man behind the camera is important and not the camera. So you have to practice a lot to get a good picture because a good picture speaks a thousand words. Finding a camera with its brand name is very easy, but all of them are just tools, so according your budget you can select a model. My suggestion for you is to start photography is with a manual analog SLR camera and please dont start with digital, because you will become addicted to blindly clilcking the pictures, your creativity will not be put to the best. Its my opinion. Have a nice time with your PHOTOGRAPHY.

In my opinion canon is the best.

It all depends on the type of photography you want to do.

Well I can't exactly tell you what the best is unless you want to get into the thousands. But a great camera to start out with is either a Nikon D50 (which is what I have or also I heard that the Canon Rebel compares to that. It is semi professional but easy to learn and use. Good luck.

If you're looking for a professional grade camera, getting a DSLR is a must! As far as brands go, most professionals will recommend either a Nikon or a Canon. Both are excellent cameras. As for which of the two you should get, it really depends on personal preference. So if I were you, I'd go to a camera store and try out both a Nikon DSLR and a Canon DSLR. Hold it in your hands, see where the features are, and see which one feels more comfortable to use.

I agree with popular opinion. Nikon, Canon- they are best. Any top end priced slr digital is not going to be wrong. But you must make considered judgements before you buy any camera. Will you need multi shot bursts for action and the like- if so we have already named the best. Considerations are if not a Nikon etc... to get a good cmos chipped camera as they operate faster. Take into account the frames per second- 2.5fps is slow isn't it? 3+ better! Zoom capability - how far are your subjects, is zoom an issue? Then how bad at getting the shot in frame are you? Higher pixels mean cropability to me! I like 7 million plus but you set this on camera, you can do 1.3 mill or 4mill whatever as you need is. This is not to say the least a finite answer. If you tend to do portrait, landscape and little subject movement a ccd chipped camera is fine, but slower in speed so multi shutter is likely to be less than 2.5fps. I couldn't afford a good Nikon or top end. I photograph birds, gardens, beaches, holiday snaps, people, nothing fast except the birds sometimes so I need my zoom high. Look at a Kodak z710 with the extra telephoto lens for over the cameras zoom lens. On my economy, I find it excellent quality for my kind of photography. At 7.1 mill pixels zooming up to 500+ mm equivalent down to 58mm with telephoto and down to 38mm without. I can crop in to make the perfect shot position. The software from koday is fine but i use also picasa2, adobe photo shop... i have used adobe elements and its cool for most needs. generally though I find kodaks own enough as I generally only need to crop a bit where my photo needs a little help. Retouching and manipulation I find unnecessary except on my sunsets/rises. Anyway compare kodak as you will be surprised if you do slow photography like me on a budget.