Bridge Cameras (Page 6): I learned a LONG time ago that your vision is not everyone's vision. Your Masterpiece can be unacceptable to someone else. The only person you have to please...

cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast

I learned a LONG time ago that your vision is not everyone's vision. Your Masterpiece can be unacceptable to someone else.
The only person you have to please is yourself.
The old saw: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" applied here!

Dean37 Loc: Fresno, CA

I've used many digital cameras that were tiny, and I was happy with the photos, well, at least a few photos made with them. I do use my "Bridge" camera and it serves me well, same as my dSLR's which are ApsC.

I wish that I could do better, as do many photographers, I don't know many who are 100% happy with every photo. If they were they wouldn't discard any, except possibly duplicates. One day I may reach that plateau, but for now I'll keep the photos I like, and discard the ones I don't like.

As others have already said, "If you're happy", then you are doing what you set out to do. You're the person you need to keep happy with what you do.

Good shooting!

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

Rae Zimmerman wrote:

I am curious about how many UHH readers primarily shoot with bridge cameras. My only camera is a Canon PowerShot SX60 IS. I understand its limits and am very happy with the results I achieve. I mostly photograph birds and landscapes. I'm interested in whether other photographers would discount my work due to the camera I use.

I have often heard and often repeated that if you give a high quality, expensive camera setup to an inexperienced person you may get a couple good picturess. On the other hand, give a cheap camera to an expert and you can frequently get numerous excellent or outstanding photos. Cameras do not compose, setup or even take the picture, it is the person behind the camera that does all the thinking, settings and composing of a photograph.

Be happy with what works for you and if you are satisfied with the results, that's all that matters.

psievers

I have had DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. I now shoot primarily with a Sony RX 10 Mark IV. I love it. The Zeiss zoom lens goes out to 6oomm with great clarity. I only wish it could do more than F16. That said i have taken it on several trips and am really pleased with the results.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Gene51 wrote:

Well, I am pretty sure I understood clearly what m... (show quote)

I have several bridge cameras. The one I bring with me most of the time is my Canon G1X III. I also have a G1X II and a G1X, a G10, G11 and G12, SX30 IS and SX60 HS. My first digital camera was a 3 megapixel Sony Mavica that I bought about 20 years ago. I still have it and it still works. My first DSLR was a Canon 10D; still have it and it still works. I also own a Canon 20D, 30D, 40D, 50D, 60D, 70D, 80D, 90D, 5DSr, 5DIV, 6D, 7DII, SL1, SL2, SL3 and M50, plus a Nikon D7200, D500 and D810, so I too have a good frame of reference.
I also worked, several years ago, for a billboard company and I know how they are made. They are not meant to be viewed up close and viewing an image of one on a computer screen is pretty much irrelevant.

Photogirl17 Loc: Glenwood, Ark.

Rae Zimmerman wrote:

I am curious about how many UHH readers primarily shoot with bridge cameras. My only camera is a Canon PowerShot SX60 IS. I understand its limits and am very happy with the results I achieve. I mostly photograph birds and landscapes. I'm interested in whether other photographers would discount my work due to the camera I use.

I've said it once and I'll probably say it a million more it's not the camera that takes the Photograph it's the Eye Behind it..The end result is whats important..

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

You make an image, you develop and print it. You lay it on the table. I pick it up and turn it over and no where can I find on either side of the photograph the camera that was used to make it. I am left with looking between the four corners of the image using my own personal criteria which can be based on any number of factors to determine what I think about your photograph. Others might come to another conclusion. It is up to you whether or not you disclose the kind of camera with which you made the image.

chuckc

Ummm . . . what is a bridge camera?

Chuck

chuckc

Very nice photos, indeed!

Chuck

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Gene51 wrote:

Well, I am pretty sure I understood clearly what meant when you wrote, "But, you are limited by the IQ when it comes to what you may do with said image. A camera with a better, larger sensor increases the possibilities of what you can do with the image, like cropping or making large prints or editing. A bigger sensor coupled with a bigger lens will give you more data to work with."

It couldn't be any clearer, or my reading comprehension any sharper.

Actually it could be clearer. Physical size of the sensor is only tangentially connected to logical size of the sensor. At this time five years ago, I had two cameras - a Canon XT with a 8mp sensor and a Pentax Q-7 with a 12mp sensor - the 8mp sensor was roughly 3 times higher and 3 times wider than the 12mp sensor, so the physically smaller sensor gave me more data to work with.

jdtonkinson Loc: Red Wing, MN

I am still learning about photography, and do mostly bird / nature photos. My camera is a bridge camera from Panasonic (FZ80). It too has limitations (low light, and limited Fstop range). But it can take some fairly good photographs (at least I feel they are).

11bravo

dick ranez wrote:

I've never heard an art critique complain about the brand of brushes the artist used.

My prime camera is a bridge: Panasonic FZ1000. I shoot photos FOR myself. I use this one because I can carry it all day up and down mountains (and yes, did start at the river...). As the years pass, the mountains get steeper...

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rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

11bravo wrote:

My prime camera is a bridge: Panasonic FZ1000. I shoot photos FOR myself. I use this one because I can carry it all day up and down mountains (and yes, did start at the river...). As the years pass, the mountains get steeper...

The mountains aren't getting any steeper, our resistance to the force of gravity is getting weaker as we get older.

eskimoky

I always have a bridge cam with me along with my regular sales they are handy and fast!I recently bought a sony dscx400v kind of a precursor perhaps to the larger processor sony bridge but it's hard to not like the 52 x zoom !eskimoky

eskimoky

I always have a bridge cam with me along with my regular sales they are handy and fast!I recently bought a sony dscx400v kind of a precursor perhaps to the larger processor sony bridge but it's hard to not like the 52 x zoom !eskimoky