Canon EOS 5D Vs. Nikon D700 Digital SLR Cameras

I have recently been looking into a new digital SLR camera, and it is very hard to decide!

I am looking at 2 cameras. The Nikon D700
digital SLR camera and the Canon EOS 5D
digital SLR camera.

Both of these cameras are VERY nice! Both the Canon EOS 5D
and Nikon D700
cameras feature a full frame image sensor. This will allow a lot higher quality exposures, and also have a lot less noise in your photos when using the camera in low lighting situations.

Some people will say “use a flash
“, well sometimes when you are doing photography, you can’t use a flash
. For instance if you are taking photos at a wedding. Some churches/chapels will tell everyone, especially the photographer that you can not use a flash
inside their building during the ceromony! You can only use a flash
before and after! So time to crank up the ISO, if that still isn’t enough, open the shutter more, maybe even longer, then you have to worry about holding the camera body very still, as you may get blur!

I usually can go to my local camera shops and play with these cameras a bit, review them, etc., but none of my local camera shops carry these 2 cameras in stock, they have to be ordered! So any comments would be greatly appreciated!

Choosing a Digital Camera

Here I will tell you about the types of digital cameras, types of image sensors or block-arrays, sizes of image sensors, and all the other technical jargon before you decide which digital camera you would like to purchase. A lot of people have no clue what the differences between digital cameras are and will just assume that the larger the numbers are the better the camera. So I am going to give you a break down of the different types of digital cameras first.

• Compact, Point and Shoot, Pocket Sized, and Digicam Digital Cameras
• Fixed Lens, Bridge, Advanced, Quasi-DSLR, ZLR, and SLR-Like Digital Cameras
• SLR, DSLR, Single-Lens Reflex, Full-Frame Digital Cameras

Now for a little information that may save you headache later:

Compact Point and Shoot Digital Cameras

Point and Shoot type digital cameras are your basic digital camera that are often small compact cameras that you can take anywhere! These cameras often have very small image sensors which reduce the quality of the picture and also the lighting. You will see 2 types of these cameras, one will have a separate optical view finder and the others will have an LCD. If it has a separate optical view finder this means when you compose your shot you will see slightly different than the image sensor, so your picture may not be exactly what you thought it was going to be. Point and Shoot cameras get their name because they are almost 100% automatic, you just point and shoot and your picture is captured.

After reading through my camera buying guide and you decided you want to go with the Compact Digital Camera click on Compact Digital Camera or use the navigation menus above.

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Fixed Lens Digital Cameras

Fixed Lens Cameras are in your medium range cameras as they offer a bit of what the point and shoot cameras do as most of these have an automatic setting. You also get the manual settings and features of the SLR cameras as you can change your focus, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and much more! With this type of camera you usually don’t have to worry about dust, dirt, lint, pollen, etc. getting behind your lens as the lens is fixed to the camera and can not be removed or replaced easily. For people with this type of camera if you were wanting to get more power from your camera’s optical zoom you would have to add-on to the existing lens. Fixed Lens Cameras are usually as big as SLR cameras and typically of same image quality. They are not considered Single-Lens Reflex because they lack the mirror system. This camera has your image sensor constantly viewing the image, there is no mirror system that switches so you can view through your lens back to the image sensor. Yes you can see through the lens, but you are actually viewing through the image sensor which then transmits the signal digitally to an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) and finally you will then view the image on the LCD. Viewing through and LCD does not show you the exact photo as LCD screens lack quality of shadows and lighting.

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Digital SLR Cameras

Digital SLR Cameras are the most popular photographer’s camera as this camera uses a mirror system made of a pentaprism or a pentamirror which allows the camera to view and capture photographs through the same lens using this mirror system. You can not compose your images through your LCD screen. When you are composing a photograph looking though the optical view finder the image is bounced around through a series of mirrors, so you see the high quality image directly through your optical lens which is exactly what your image sensor will see as well. When you press your shutter button to capture your picture one of the mirrors move which disconnects your optical view finder from the lens to connect the image sensor and then returns. SLR cameras usually have a larger body, lens, and image sensor resulting in higher quality photos. Almost every Single-Lens Reflex camera allows you to change your lenses. One of the downfalls is you have to use your optical view finder to compose your shot and can not use your LCD screen. You may also get dust, dirt, pollen, etc. on your image sensor while you are changing lenses which will cause dark spots or shadows on your images and you will not see this until you view your photo after it is taken.

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Sony PSP Downloads

I have been looking around for different Sony PSP Download Sites and I couldn’t decide which one to go with, so I ended up going with all of them! They aren’t that expensive at all, so I figured I’d give them all a shot and review them for you. Here are some of the download sites for Sony PSP that I reviewed:

Recommend	DO NOT Recommend
AllPSPGames.com PSPKing.com PSPBlender.com PSPNerd.com	FeedMyPSP.net – Very fast though! PSPDownloads4U.net MyPSPCenter.com MyPSPDownload.com PSPxStudio.com PSPDownloadWorld.com MyPSPDownloads.com PSPThunder.com

These are the main ones I reviewed, there were a bunch more but those were the top 6, but you can look at Media Downloads for PSP for full review!

Buy Nikon D300

This is a blog testing inserting images and links using the Nikon D300 Digital Camera from Amazon.com This is a great camera and also comes with a nice lens to start off with. This camera is pretty pricy, but well worth it.

If you are not a photographer you DO NOT want this camera unless you just want the BEST camera on the market. This is not a point and shoot camera, there are MANY advanced features that someone just wanting to take pictures will not want to learn.

There are many other places that you can buy this camera and get more information as well. You can go to this website to get more information on Top Digital Camera Reviews .