Which camera do you use and why?

i always remember what Micky said at lightinshoot that; i don;t care what type of underwear you are using so why should i care what type of camera you use. we need to remember one thing is that a camera is an equipment that is use to record light. and choosing the right lens is a crucial as the camera itself, but above all we need to remember that at the end of the day it all boils down to one thing... the composition. i did a photography challenge for a month and it's about kit lens challenge. so if you are a serious shooter you would say... ohh kit lens what a shame, you got some primes there? the answer would be yes i do, got a 50mm 1.8 but why would i like to use a kit lens for a month. most hobbiest think that a kit lens is a looser but at the challenge we did prove something very different to everyone. we show them what a kit lens can and can't do but at the end of the day... it'w how you understand you equipment and how you see the light. so i always say to people i meet that camera is not important it's how you can read the light is what makes everything. iphones are even use in photography now a days and i have seen at lot of great shots with them. your camera is not the hero, it's you. your camera can't save you from a flat light or to a photographic error. no amount of photoshop can change that.

I use a Samsung WB700 digital camera. I bought it because it is tiny yet it can do up to 18 times with its zoom. I love it for my travels and my every day life. I adore taking photos and print my travel photos. I place those in albums and place a postcard on the front.

I have been taking photos as a hobby since I was quite young. My father introduced me to it and showed me the magic of darkroom work - developing, printing and enlarging my own photos. The first camera I owned was a Kodak Autographic (but I never used the autographic feature which required special film and allowed one to write details on the actual negative before it was developed). Later on, I got a 35mm camera (an Ilford Sportsman) and took many good photos with that. I have hundreds of colour slides which really deserve to be scanned and converted into digital format! I think that I bought my first digital camera in 2000 - an Olympus 2.1 megapixel - although, by today's standards, 2 Mpx is almost laughable, the lens and the colour rendering were excellent and I was very proud of the photos I took with it. I have been using a Nikon D40X for some years now and am very happy with it. My favourite subjects are landscapes, architecture and close-ups of flowers, plants and, occasionally, insects. Here is a close-up of a daisy which I took yesterday.

I use a Canon 5d Mark II. I chose it for a couple of reasons. First its 21 mega pixels which at the time I bought it beat most everything else and still beats a lot of other cameras. I also wanted the option for HD video which the 5D Mark II does. This camera is a full frame sensor so I get every bit of my len in full to the pictures. I also wanted to do extreme macro photography and Canon has the Canon MP-E 65mm 1x-5x macro lens where there arent many if any comparable lens for other brands.

I used to love dSLRs but then over time, I got tired of them because traveling with dSLRs with the different lenses and other equipment can be be quite a chore. Then LOL, I decided to take one step backwards and went for the point and shoot instead. However I found those do not give me the depth and zoom that I wanted. I finally settled on a bridge camera. My last one is the Canon SX50. Check out the link below for more information if you are interested: