Canon Cameras

What is the best digital camera for night, portraits, and landscapes?

I am an amateur digital photographer. I am familiar with Canon cameras, and unfortunately, can't pay the price of any of the digitial SLRs right now. I heard Sony and Nikon are the other two contenders.

Public Comments

1. if you want to shoot at night find something with a real low ISO, like 100.
2. There are lots of really good cameras out there that will do what you're asking and lots more. What you should really be asking yourself is how much control will a particular camera give you over the exposure and saving processes. If you're planning on day and night photography, then you will want a unit that will allow you a wide range of settings for white balance. If you are looking to shoot portraits, then that is more a characteristic of the lens and not the camera. So, interchangeability is what you'll want to consider here. Landscapes can also be enhanced with the proper lens, but shooting in manual mode on a tripod, then stitching the shots together in Photoshop can have dramatic results. Finally, try to find a unit that uses a CMOS processor rather than CCD and keep an eye on how long the camera takes to start up and save images. Good luck.
3. go to canon.com. canon has great cameras! a lot of pros use canons.
4. go to a good camera shop and ask to see what they have in a used Sony camera ...I have had two of them... currently I have put 6000 shots thur the one I have now it was 900.00 and I got if for 350 after only 17 shots had been put thru it. You can get them even cheaper if you go for a slightly less expensive model because lots of people get them then decide that they are too complicated to use when all one has to do is read the manual and practice good luck with your search shooting is great and looking at the result after a trip thru photoshop is way cool
5. you might look at the panasonics. they have leica lenses so they give you major bang for the buck. i have a 4mp panasonic w/ the leica lense that could easily pass for a 6 megapixel!! the lense really made the difference. and they are totally affordable and cute to boot!