bridge camera: hello people can you please give some guidelines with a bridge camera...

arpitmehtadhd Loc: india

hello people can you please give some guidelines with a bridge camera

Wahawk Loc: NE IA

What kind of guidelines? Basically check out all of them, see what features each one has, and what features/capabilities that YOU need or want, and then choose what fits YOUR needs/desires.

Mercer Loc: Houston, TX, USA

Wahawk wrote:

What kind of guidelines? Basically check out all of them, see what features each one has, and what features/capabilities that YOU need or want, and then choose what fits YOUR needs/desires.

Too right! I got a Nikon P510, but for approximately the same price I could have gotten a Canon SX50. The Canon has features lacking in the Nikon, but I chose Nikon because that is what I always have used. Live and learn.

Wahawk Loc: NE IA

Mercer wrote:

Too right! I got a Nikon P510, but for approximately the same price I could have gotten a Canon SX50. The Canon has features lacking in the Nikon, but I chose Nikon because that is what I always have used. Live and learn.

So true!! The SX50 has a hot shoe that the Nikon doesn't. Canon will save 'raw' format if you want, has provision for remote release, fully articulating LCD...... I cannot think of anything that I don't like about it!!

There are many "good" SuperZoom Bridge Cameras, and ONLY the person that is actually going to USE the camera can decide which features are the most important to them.

Pick a camera model and enter it into the SEARCH option and read the posts/comments from the UHH users.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Only am familiar with the Nikon P510 and the Canon SX50. I didn't care for the feel and weight of the P510 in my hand, though the images my friend gets with them are very nice. The grips are definitely different, so don't underestimate that part if you plan to shoot a lot.

Bought the SX50 after hearing from a few owners on UHH. Have taken 10,000 photos in less than 3 months and couldn't be happier! There are now enough of us here to start our own sub-forum :)

arpitmehtadhd Loc: india

I own a Sony dschx300
it is a good camera but in the auto mode pictures don't come out to proper
by guidelines I mean what settings should be kept for macro or other shots
I am a beginner in photography so don't know much

DOOK Loc: Maclean, Australia

If you are after a recommendation--Canon SX50. Before I bought mine, I spent a lot of time Youtubing & Googling the SX50 & its equivalents in Nikon, Fuji, & Lumix. They are all good cameras, but the Canon was a winner when all aspects were considered, at least IMO. It is hard to believe that a camera this good is so inexpensive. :-)

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

arpitmehtadhd wrote:

I own a Sony dschx300
it is a good camera but in the auto mode pictures don't come out to proper
by guidelines I mean what settings should be kept for macro or other shots
I am a beginner in photography so don't know much

Buy Bryan Peterson's "Understanding Exposure." I haven't read it, but it's highly recommended on this site. If you are going to buy a bridge camera with the opportunity to use settings other than auto, you need to learn that. Best wishes!

Wahawk Loc: NE IA

arpitmehtadhd wrote:

I own a Sony dschx300
it is a good camera but in the auto mode pictures don't come out to proper
by guidelines I mean what settings should be kept for macro or other shots
I am a beginner in photography so don't know much

Maybe you just need to switch from "auto" to the "P" or "program" mode and slightly adjust the +/- exposure to slightly under-expose your pics. I find that many times just a 1/3 to 2/3 stop underexposure gives better colors.

cameranut64 Loc: Murrells Inlet, SC

arpitmehtadhd wrote:

hello people can you please give some guidelines with a bridge camera

I purchased the HS50 recently and I am enjoying it, I was also debating between the SX50 and the HS50 by doing a spread sheet comparing features of the two. The conclusion pointed to the HS50 for me. Birds in flight is not easy but I am amazed at the quality of pictures at full 1000mm and also at 2000mm digital zoom. I just had a couple enlarged to 11x14 and I like them.

You can see a lot of my pictures from the HS50 here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/archer01/

Type Fuji HS50 in the search box to see just the one from the HS50.

Terry

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

arpitmehtadhd wrote:

hello people can you please give some guidelines with a bridge camera

Welcome to our forum! Google "bridge cameras" and see what turns up. Different cameras have different features. Decide what features you want and then compare those cameras. One good site for this is -

http://www.dpreview.com/products/compare/cameras

Also -

http://www.snapsort.com

patcam Loc: chelmsford essex uk

I have to question why a bridge camera and not a DSLR ?
I went down that road recently, having used DSLR's for a number of years, on a whim I sold my camera and bought a Canon sx40, loved it, but the IQ wasn't quite there, so I sold that and bought what is probably the best bridge camera on the market right now a Fuji x-s1,much better than the canon, after 3 months the novelty wore off, and I suddenly realised that to me the end photo result was so important, I discovered that severly cropping bridge camera photos is not an option, there is just two much noise, so I sold that and am now extremely happy with my Canon 60d, and 17-85 is usm & 70-300 is usm lenses, ok so I don't have the reach of a megazoom, but the considerably larger sensor allows a lot of cropping, even photos taken at 1600 iso!
so the moral of this long tale is, if you want image quality buy a DSLR, even a base model like Canon 1100d will give better pics

cameranut64 Loc: Murrells Inlet, SC

patcam wrote:

I have to question why a bridge camera and not a D... (show quote)

For me the weight of my Canon 40D and the 100-400L was getting to be too much to carry around at seventy years old.
Terry

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

cameranut64 wrote:

For me the weight of my Canon 40D and the 100-400L was getting to be too much to carry around at seventy years old.
Terry

I hate to see people saying that, and it appears here quite often. Fortunately, there are hundreds of very capably non-DSLRs available. I'll have to buy some exercise equipment so I can continue to carry my heavy gear, as it gets heavier.

cameranut64 Loc: Murrells Inlet, SC

jerryc41 wrote:

I hate to see people saying that, and it appears here quite often. Fortunately, there are hundreds of very capably non-DSLRs available. I'll have to buy some exercise equipment so I can continue to carry my heavy gear, as it gets heavier.

Jerry, not all of us are able to do that. I just chose my best option to still be able to do what I enjoy, photography!
Terry