Is the fuji finepix S1000fd a good camera for a photography student?

Question

I've ordered it but it has not yet arrived. I've been doing some research on-line, but nothing I'm reading has helped. It was priced at $249.95, which is the max I can pay.

Answer 1

no

nothing by fuji is any good for anything at all.  

Answer 2

Not for a photography student.  You need an SLR (single-lens-reflex) camera.  If you're studying photography, I would recommend a 35mm SLR film camera, even though it'll be more costly to develop and print your pictures.  The problem is digital SLR cameras are very expensive.  They start at $600.00, and to get a good one it'll cost you $1,000.00 or more.

You may want to check out E-Bay or Craiglist or other selling sites to see if you can get a good used 35mm SLR camera.  Nikon and Canon are the two best brand names.  I like Nikon because they're built well, their lenses are better than anyone else's, and they're durable.  If you could get a used Nikon F3 or F4 in your price range that would be ideal.  The Nikon N60, N80, and N100 are also very good cameras.  As for Canon, try to find an AE-1 Rebel.

Answer 3

No. If you're a photography student, you either want an SLR or rangefinder, not a cheap coatpocket holiday and baby snapper. I hear there's a new SLR digital around for 600$ with lens, but since you still can't afford that, you'll have to go with a film camera. Seriously, you can still scan film negatives for editing in Photoshop, so it works, and functions like a wide ISO range, manual focus, an f-stop control wheel, and true through-the-lense viewing are utterly indispensable. SLRs also take hotshoe flashes for extra illumination, and offer a bulb setting for ultra-long exposure. Good ones can cost as little as fifty dollars through the classifieds, and your school problably has a film processing lab if you can live with B&W photography (it's fun!).

Also don't be adverse to older SLR units. If it's taken care of, the only real issue is the now-unavailable mercury batteries. Like phonographs, they're a pretty set in stone technology, with improvements being better bundled optics, autofocusing, and better electronic guidance circuitry.

Answer 4

No.  You need an SLR, like a Digital Rebel XTi  http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/contro...

Answer 5

The problem with studying photography with a camera like that is that you can control only a few things. You can find used cameras on eBay and get good bargins on used cameras that have all of the options for you to control and learn how to use. Below is just one example that I found on eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Canon-Eos-Rebel-T2-W...

Have fun studying photography, I know I did.