Buying Fuji S5000.... amateur photographer has questions.. read inside

I am getting a Fuji S5000 and am wondering if you have any comments on the
camera. Also, What sort of lenses would be best to buy with it for effects.
I want to get a polarizer and a gradial color filter, what else do you
recommend.

Thank You

Aero

 

Polarizer would be good do everything else with a good photo editor.

 

What Dot said: polarizer, maybe a UV / Skylight filter for "protection"
and that's that. Forget about color filters, and their like. You won't need
them, as you can do all that stuff in programs like Photoshop and their
like a lot easier. Same applies for shooting anything but colour photos:
Sepia, and Black / White are better achieved by converting afterwards...

 

Thank you very much guys

Aero

 

Same applies for shooting anything but colour photos:

I disagree, you can't simulate quality B&W film and get the same quality

Alan

 

I agree with you, but Aero asked about the S5000 specifically.
Since it's a Digital Camera, there isn't much you can do "film"-wise.
The camera achieves B/W mode or Sepia mode by re-calculating the
picture from the colour information it's got. So I opted for shooting a
colour picture and then changing it manually in photoshop (or others),
since you won't lose the "colour information", and there is no difference
between letting your camera drop to greyscale for you and doing it
yourself but a little time and an overall better result (from my experience
at least), and most digital pictures will have to be edited for printing anyhow.

Mathias

 

anyhow.

I disagree, for an amateur, it is very handy for the camera to preview what
your shot will look like in B&W as a feature that stands out in colour may
well not work when you get it back home and convert in photoshop

 

In

Hi,

You might want to check out http://fujigroup.net and ask the forum at
fujigroup.net as well!

Ed