Please recommend some digital camera for me~

[babymark]

hi guys,
I am a new user of Digital camera. I would like to buy a digital camera recently. What suggestion (all Canon products) do you guys suggest?
Please list down the model and the price. Thanks~

The features that i hope are:
-manual exposure
-manual focus
-high megapixels (more than 3 megapixels can be)

some questions:
1. Any Eos products have optical zoom? if i want optical zoom, is it i need to buy another lens for zooming?

2. Since i found that most of the digital camera have only auto-focus. Let say i got a glass of water just in front of me on the table, then something else or someone have a distance away from that glass of water. If i only want to take the picture that capture the glass of water clearly, but other object in blur, is that only using Manual-Focus? or digital camera with auto-focus also can do?

Thanks for helping me. Hope to see suggestions from you guys.

[RichardtheSane]

OK, I can help with the EOS question....
EOS cameras are SLR's and all have interchangable lenses.
If you buy a 10D, you don't get a lens, a 300D you get an 18-55mm lens. That is optical zoom.
If you want decent manual focus, and manual exposure (and a lens!) then the 300D is the camera I recommend.
It's 6Mp BTW

[openspace]

2. Since i found that most of the digital camera have only auto-focus. Let say i got a glass of water just in front of me on the table, then something else or someone have a distance away from that glass of water. If i only want to take the picture that capture the glass of water clearly, but other object in blur, is that only using Manual-Focus? or digital camera with auto-focus also can do?

Wha? Huh? What you speak of has nothing to do with manual focus vs. autofocus. It is about depth of field and aperture settings. If all this is greek to you, then before you buy any camera, much less a $1000 - $1500 digital SLR, I suggest you read through these forums, read other forums, read photography how-to and equipment books. Read everything you can.

And, don't get me wrong. Do ask questions. We all started somewhere, some time. Then once you have a grasp of the basics and a better idea of what you want to (and can) do, you will be in a much better position to make an educated decision about the kind of camera you need.

[defordphoto]

Babymark: At this point you may consider a cheap point and shoot to see if you'll even be interested in photography as a serious hobby and/or possible profession before diving off the money cliff and getting a dSLR you may end up dumping on eBay because you don't enjoy it, or just plain don't have the skills.

Also, get a few books and take a class. That'll help you get the lingo and technical crap into something that'll make some sense to both you can us when you're trying to ask questions.

[babymark]

Thanks for all the suggestions and advises above.

BTW, what is SLR? what is that for?

Actually I'm chinese educated, and i'm not really well in English. Anyway, thanks for you all.

[defordphoto]

babymark wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions and advises above.

BTW, what is SLR? what is that for?

Actually I'm chinese educated, and i'm not really well in English. Anyway, thanks for you all.

I was wondering if there might be some language barrier. We'll try and be gentle. :) Please read this excellent information for people new to photography: http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/

SLR means Single Lens Reflex.

[babymark]

RFMSports wrote:
babymark wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions and advises above.

BTW, what is SLR? what is that for?

Actually I'm chinese educated, and i'm not really well in English. Anyway, thanks for you all.

I was wondering if there might be some language barrier. We'll try and be gentle. :) Please read this excellent information for people new to photography: http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/

SLR means Single Lens Reflex.

thanks ya~