Nampaknya musim cuti datang lagi. (perghh macam iklan tora datang lagi). Ada beberapa orang yang tanya aku pasal kamera dslr apa yang patut dibeli untuk dibawak berjalan-jalan sebab nampaknya orang mula sedar gambar-gambar dari kamera yang kononnya kecik dan stylish itu mostly suck.
First off, jom survey beberapa main players dalam industri dslr nie.
1) Canon- no 1 camera manufacturer withe the largest market share. Aku dah pernah guna kamera Canon EOS 400D, mostly not bad but not quite my cup of tea. Known for its prowess in the high ISO department but Nikon is playing catch up and almost there already to be taking over. Kamera sangat user friendly, image quality pun mantap tapi kit lens (your first and the cheapest piece of plastic tube and glass possibly ever made) agak tak best. So you would have to invest a little bit more (And by a little I mean exorbitant) to get top quality glass.
Bukanlah nak kata kit lens dia unusable, it just leaves something to be desired.
Target model: EOS 450D or EOS1000D. (kalau bapak anda merupakan seorang tokey estet yang tidak terkesan dengan perubahan iklim ekonomi dunia, bleh je nak target EOS 5D mark II)
2) Nikon- no 2 camera manufacturer and customer base is growing very rapidly due to very aggressive marketing targeted on the lower end users. Kalau dekat Malaysia rasanya brand no 1 kot. I think the type of colors in the images that Nikon can produce can relate very well to most people, sebab tu ramai orang nampak dia sangat cantik. High ISO pun makin lama makin clean with the introduction of newer models. Aku dah selalu guna member aku punya, even though features tak banyak sangat, tapi the base-line models do a really great job on what a camera is actually supposed to do. Kit lenses are known to be fairly good for the beginners.
Nikon's entry level line-up lacks a few features that some potential buyers might be looking for like live-view. And then there are some minor niggles on how to operate the cameras (like you'd only have the ISO changed after the umpteenth time pressing some buttons) which might feel tedious to the users with a little bit of knowledge and experience. Pendek kata, leceh la.
Target model: Nikon D40, Nikon D60, ataupun kalau anda rasa duit (scholar?) anda agak banyak and u'll be in this for quite a run, go for the new and highly rated D90 (with which all my complaints will be irrelevant).
3) Sony- I think right now Sony is already in the no 3 position even though it is basically a greenhorn in this industry. (depending too much on its brand strength I guess). Sony has acquired the technological know-hows from the now defunct but a very experienced Konica Minolta, so lets just put all those doubts to rest. The lower end cameras are known to be cheap, features pun mantap dan ia memang sangat terkenal dengan the best implementation of live view among all cameras that are being made today. Kit lenses so-so je kot, high ISO image quality definitely is not quite up there along side Canon but I guess it's all right.
Oh and why I don't quite like Sony eh? Oh, I dislike the ergonomics and the weird loud sound its shutter release produces. Plus I have this thing with big multi-national corporate conglomerates (after so much with conspiracy theories on how the world economy is run). Camera u should gun for: Alpha 200, Alpha 300, Alpha 350. (even the alpha prefixes remind me so much of the character alpha 5 dalam cerita power rangers yang aku tengok masa kecik2 dulu)
4) Olympus-
Oh Olympus is the camera that I own right now, the e520 model. Olympus generally produces some very well received cameras among its loyal (cult?) followings. They usually have a very advanced and nice set of latest features like live-view and dust buster, the images are good and best known for its very nice jpeg processing that can come out with great colors and tones that are unseen in any other. Masa aku guna Canon dulu, slalu aku post process sebelum print gambar-gambar yang dah ditangkap. Tapi dengan Olympus nie, aku selalunya tak edit dah sebab warna dan contrast yang dihasilkan memang meng-eye-mo-kan mata anda. Kit lens pun sangat sharp compared to its equivalents from other brands, plus the build quality and ergonomics of the entry-level cameras leave almost nothing to be desired.
Anyway I abhor fanboyism, so I am not gonna spare anything bad about Olympus cameras either. Aku pilih Olympus for its great colors, but I'd have to live with its infamous Achillees heels which is nasty noise at high ISO. If you are mainly shooting indoor or during nighttime and do not have any plan to get a respectable external-flash unit in the near future, I suggest you look somewhere else. Ohhh and you'd miss the oh-sooooo-sweeeeet crispy colors.
Study further about Olympus e420 and e520 if u think Olympus is the right way to go.
5) Pentax.
I know almost-- zero, zilch, nadaaaa about Pentax cameras. Never ever even seen one in action. But the critics are raving about models like the K10D and K20D(which by the way I almost got for my first dslr) so I guess the critics aren't a bunch of stupid people so Pentax must have made some really nice cameras. Plus I notice most pictures taken with a Pentax that are published in the webs have some really nice colors and tones that equal that of film cameras back in its heydays.
U should go with K200d and I think they're coming up with the newer Pentax K-m for their lower line-up. Even their semi-professional K20D is not that far away from the reach of broke pitiful weaklings like us.
Ok, I am a student, and a medical one at that. So I have a life and I need to study. So I am goint to continue writing about this in part 2 discussing the objectives of getting a dslr, the features that a camera can offer, your budget, what u will mainly use them for.
p/s: I was quite undecided whether to go with english or bahasa melayu with my posts so I guess i'm just going to blab and and see which directions the wind is going to take me, (though I strongly believe bahasa melayu is the more natural way to go). huhu, tah apa apa lah.
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