What is considered professional camera equipment?
MLKstudios wrote: The best answer is..
"If a pro is holding it, it's a pro camera."
However, Nikon uses single numbers for what they call their "pro level". They don't include the green or picture settings, that an amateur would use.
HTH
That pretty much sums it up.......
Why so serious?
A few decades ago, any SLR was considered a pro level camera, as you needed to know a little about photography to operate it. Then Minolta, and some other manufacturers started adding Auto features to cameras. Many of those features were used by the pros too -- like Aperture Priority shooting. It made what we did easier.
Later the "picture" settings evolved. Ex. if you wanted to shoot a flower, you picked the flower pic (maximizes DoF). Or landscape for a landscape (it doesn't pop up the flash in low light). For whatever you were shooting, there was a "cheater" setting. You don't need to know anything about the camera settings. They are chosen for you.
So a new "level" got added to cameras. The prosumer model. It's a pro camera in the hands of a pro, or a consumer (non-pro) camera for everyone else.
Matthew
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
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"Every artist, was once an amateur"
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
Honestly I think a cam that has good AF or good IQ is a pro camera. It all depends what you use it for.
Though I'd say these are pro cameras (though the manufacturers may label them differently).
Canon 7D, 5DII, 1DIV, 1DsIII
Nikon D7000, D700, D3s, D3x
Of course Medium Format etc.
Gripped Nikon D810 --- Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 --- Sigma 10-20mm f/4 --- Nikon 50mm f/1.4 --- SB600
Happy Snapper wrote: But the camera salesman said this camera would make me a pro?
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