Tthis month I'm going to my first gig (Phoenix on El Palacio De Los Deportes, Mexico City). So I want to take a shot of everything there.
I had a Nokia N73 with a Carl-Zeiss 3 megapixel camera, and the photo quality is very stunning (you can see my Flickr gallery) but is just a cell-phone and the battery drains so fast. I also used to have a Canon PowerShot I5iS, that fits on that cattegory of "super-zoom", but the photos most of the time were fuzzy unless I were very steady, and no matter which mode I put on, some photos had remained bad (red eyes, fuzzy...). So I kinda scared about super-zoom cameras. I think they work better with tripods.
So now I want to take a big leap and go straight to a Lumix GF1, which is a bridge between pro cameras and cosumer ones (and fits my pocket). My goal is to take Thomas Mars and his mates with the highest quality. I don't know if I didn't use well my super-zoom, or do I need just a consumer camera? It's kinda expensive (for what I'm doing) and it's my first experience with pro DSLR lenses. I always thought that I don't need those classy photograph classes on London, Paris or NYC to catch a moment, just see. Anyway.
Lumix also has consumer cameras up to 16x zoom, but they work as super-zoom camera? Canon has released recently a line of tiny cameras that have up to 12x zoom as well.
But I don't know if I went wrong using the PowerShot, maybe I weren't so steady as I thought. Any advices?
And what about retouching photos later? Which program is better? If I get the GF1 i'll probably use Lightroom or Aperture, but there's any other program for non-RAW images? Noise it's also a fact, with both PowerShot and Nokia N73 I had noise on dark/night photos.
I had a Nokia N73 with a Carl-Zeiss 3 megapixel camera, and the photo quality is very stunning (you can see my Flickr gallery) but is just a cell-phone and the battery drains so fast. I also used to have a Canon PowerShot I5iS, that fits on that cattegory of "super-zoom", but the photos most of the time were fuzzy unless I were very steady, and no matter which mode I put on, some photos had remained bad (red eyes, fuzzy...). So I kinda scared about super-zoom cameras. I think they work better with tripods.
So now I want to take a big leap and go straight to a Lumix GF1, which is a bridge between pro cameras and cosumer ones (and fits my pocket). My goal is to take Thomas Mars and his mates with the highest quality. I don't know if I didn't use well my super-zoom, or do I need just a consumer camera? It's kinda expensive (for what I'm doing) and it's my first experience with pro DSLR lenses. I always thought that I don't need those classy photograph classes on London, Paris or NYC to catch a moment, just see. Anyway.
Lumix also has consumer cameras up to 16x zoom, but they work as super-zoom camera? Canon has released recently a line of tiny cameras that have up to 12x zoom as well.
But I don't know if I went wrong using the PowerShot, maybe I weren't so steady as I thought. Any advices?
And what about retouching photos later? Which program is better? If I get the GF1 i'll probably use Lightroom or Aperture, but there's any other program for non-RAW images? Noise it's also a fact, with both PowerShot and Nokia N73 I had noise on dark/night photos.