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| Subject: | Re: Camera Suggestions |  |
| Date: | May 19, 2005 |
| From: | Bjorn Tingstadengen | |
1) Go for one of the major Digital camera producers such as
Nkon, Canon, Sony, Olympus etc.
2) As Paul has pointed out dpreview.com is THE great place for info on digital cameras. There are many great in-detail reviews there, however most of these are for the proscumer market buyers. Also There are several magazines around like "Digital Camera World" etc. These magazines usually have tests and ratings of the current market and offerings, so I suggest you buy one of these. Also these magazines have lots of adds with prices so it is easy to find the just price for a specific camerea type - if you later go to your local camera dealer to buy one.
2) Find a camera with a decant lens. A max apparture opening of
f 2,8 is great. You do not really need a zoom lens with more than 3-4 X zoom range. I think that a good wide angle is more important than having a good tele-photo range. You really do not need a SLR camera unless photo is your seccond hobby.
3) You definately need an extra memory card with your camera. The one that comes in the package with the camera is usually worthless. If you buy a 5M-pixel camera you can store about 90 photos on a 256 MB card. The latest 7,2 MP cameras require a 512 MB memory card.
4) I prefer a camerea with the possibility to do the settings manually, if you are familiar with old type of cameras check out these options, and/or ask your dealer what manual options the various cameras have.
5) Regarding Macro. Try it out before you buy. Many of the producers have made a macro fuction that sets the camera to max wide-angle to be able focus at a very close distance (2-5 cm). This unfortenately make lots of distortion to the images, so try it out in the camerea shop.
6) A digital camere is usually equipped with a whole photo-lab inside compared to the old 135 mm cameras. This is great as you can adjust the balance of the light to the correct color (daylight, artificial indoor light etc) in almost any light situation. Let the camerea dealer demonstrate this fuctionality for you - as taking decent model close-up pictures usually requires using the available indoor artifical (lamp)light. This functionality is usually reffered as "white balance" (WB)
7) A small table-tripod is great in order to make sharp indoor close-up images. You do not need anything advanced.
Thope this helps - good luck
RE
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