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Yes, but.. Posted by Ari [Email]  (#2847) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Ari) on Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:21:41
In Reply to: Any digitals that accept a zoom lens?, StuFis, Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:19:04 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Yes, there are digital cameras that take add-on lenses. However, these are almost exclusively the digital SLRs, that start at around $1000. Some mid-priced cameras (say a $400 Kodak DX6490, for example) will take a screw-on wide angle adapter, or close up lens.
The major reason is that a decent zoom lens, or other add-on lens, will run you a couple of hundred bucks, mimimum. And they're pretty big. There isn't a big market for $400 cameras taking $300 lenses. If you're that serious that you are willing to shell out decent bucks for a few add-on lenses, then you're serious enough to step up from a $400 camera to a $900 (body on, Digital SLR Rebel).
There may be a lower-end (by that, $500 or less) camera that takes add-on lenses. I haven't heard of any, but I haven't looked hard.
My solution was to buy an 'ultra-zoom' camera. I bought a Kodak DX6490, which has a 10X Schneider-Kreuznach lens. The camera isn't very small, and lacks a few manual features I'd like, but it takes great pictures, and the zoom is great. There are other ultra-zoom cameras with Image Stabilization, but I'm from the old school days - when I run a camera with a long zoom, I use a tripod, or other physical stabilization methods.
A digital camera is a system - optics, shutter, focus system, CCD, and processing, processing, and processing. Improve any one part and not improve something else, and there will be no improvement in quality. At a $400 or $500 price point, there are compromises being made. Sticking a zoom on a camera not optimized for it will produce close-up, lousy pictures.
I'm sure that digital SLR bodies will start to drop in price in the next few years. The $1K digital Rebel was a revolution over $2.5K (and UP) Nikon digital bodies.
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