What's a good digital camera for close pictures?
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What's a good digital camera for close pictures?
Hi there,
A friend of mine is looking to take up digital photgraphy as a hobby and is looking at some cameras. I think she's gonna be focusing on fruit and rose petals and all manner of other things I don't get.
Anyhow, what features would be the most important? In my previous camera-buying experiences, I looked at things like resolution, optical zoom, what type of storage they used, LCD size, etc. but it seems like taking pictures of small things in detail would be a whole different animal.
Your thoughts?
A friend of mine is looking to take up digital photgraphy as a hobby and is looking at some cameras. I think she's gonna be focusing on fruit and rose petals and all manner of other things I don't get.
Anyhow, what features would be the most important? In my previous camera-buying experiences, I looked at things like resolution, optical zoom, what type of storage they used, LCD size, etc. but it seems like taking pictures of small things in detail would be a whole different animal.
Your thoughts?
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I have a SONY DSC-F717 w/Carl Zeiss lens at work and a SOny DSC-P10 at home. Both do a good close up job but the F717 has a nearfield autofocus feature that is like I have never seen before.
Co-workers always ask if they can borrow my camera so they can send proof of defective machined steel/SS/alum parts. It actually can get close in on threads to show texture of said threads! I have also used to illustrate scale and dimensionality of board level electronics components when cad wasn't ready or avail.
If your friend will be doing Hi-res and will be needing higher capacity buy camera with std mem stick card and go to Tigerdirect.com or ecost.com and buy some Lexar Factory Refurbished flash. I got a 256MB stick for under $50 a little while back. No sense in buying the expensive SONY flash.
If she will be taking pics in outdoors/nature she'll want lots of capacity so she won't have to dump into HD every 30 pics.
Oh, and the above Sony's are a bit pricey.
Co-workers always ask if they can borrow my camera so they can send proof of defective machined steel/SS/alum parts. It actually can get close in on threads to show texture of said threads! I have also used to illustrate scale and dimensionality of board level electronics components when cad wasn't ready or avail.
If your friend will be doing Hi-res and will be needing higher capacity buy camera with std mem stick card and go to Tigerdirect.com or ecost.com and buy some Lexar Factory Refurbished flash. I got a 256MB stick for under $50 a little while back. No sense in buying the expensive SONY flash.
If she will be taking pics in outdoors/nature she'll want lots of capacity so she won't have to dump into HD every 30 pics.
Oh, and the above Sony's are a bit pricey.
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Welp, my friend got a Canon a80...In the heat of the moment, I broke down and got a Canon a60 from Office Depot ($99 
).
Here's some macro shots I took right out of the box (resized a little because I'm on dial-up)
Thoughts?
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http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v287/d...gems/bottle.jpg[/IMG]
).Here's some macro shots I took right out of the box (resized a little because I'm on dial-up
)Thoughts?
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v287/d...ems/alt_key.jpg[/IMG]
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v287/d...gems/bottle.jpg[/IMG]
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I've got a Canon G3. Here are some samples close up shots:
ftp://ftp.look-ma.no-ip.com/photos/NeatSt...%20Feasting.jpg
ftp://ftp.look-ma.no-ip.com/photos/Flower...%20Rose%201.jpg
ftp://ftp.look-ma.no-ip.com/photos/Flower...s/Mushrooms.jpg
(I intentionally avoided [img] tags because other dial-up users might not appreciate it if I did)
ftp://ftp.look-ma.no-ip.com/photos/NeatSt...%20Feasting.jpg
ftp://ftp.look-ma.no-ip.com/photos/Flower...%20Rose%201.jpg
ftp://ftp.look-ma.no-ip.com/photos/Flower...s/Mushrooms.jpg
(I intentionally avoided [img] tags because other dial-up users might not appreciate it if I did
)
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Thanks.
None of those were taken with a tripod. In fact, in the first picture my friend held up the apple in his hands while I took the picture. They were all taken in broad daylight though (i.e., with ample light).
None of those were taken with a tripod. In fact, in the first picture my friend held up the apple in his hands while I took the picture. They were all taken in broad daylight though (i.e., with ample light).
