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Post by Woodyrock on Mar 24, 2009 13:08:19 GMT -5
I need help. If you look at any of my photographs, you can see that I need a camera that will do macros/close up shots. Macros are no problem with film cameras...but my Sony is old, and and low on pixcels, and the newer Olypmpus will not do macro even though it is supposed to. My wife has a NIkon D-70 but I do not really want to use her camera. Or want to spend the dollars for a Nikon macro lens for it.
What I need, is a fairly inexpensive digital that will do close up/macro. The majority of photographs I see on the forum are doing pretty sharp close ups.
Woody
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chasfire
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by chasfire on Mar 24, 2009 13:29:27 GMT -5
Woody: I use a Nikon P2. You have seen it on many of our trips. It takes great photos and does fantastic on macros(it is starting to show it's age though after dropping it 3 or 4 times and leaving it out in the rain overnight once). I don't know if they still make the P2 but it was less than $200 3 years ago when I bought it.
chasfire
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Gem'n I
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Post by Gem'n I on Mar 24, 2009 14:16:48 GMT -5
Woody, You might want to look at the Canon's..there are several that do macro work with hand held features...I have a S2 IS that takes great shots although I have not posted them (still trying to master how to get shots on the puter). They stand behind their products as well. There's a website called Steves Digicams.com with a boatload of info on all brands thta may help you in your search. The nice thing with this Canon is it takes regular AA batteries which helps a lot when your out in the boonies and add to that the macro is a true macro (can focus down to 1") makes this a real nice camera. You might look at Craigs list to see if there is anything listed there. Larry
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Post by deb193redux on Oct 10, 2009 13:25:20 GMT -5
The Canon PowerShot all do good macro. If you go up to S2, S3, S5 and also get IS (image stabelizer) you should be very happy.
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Post by tkrueger3 on Oct 10, 2009 14:43:21 GMT -5
Woody, the first week of August I bought a Panasonic DMC-FS7S LUMIX 10.1 MP Compact Digital Camera w/ 4x Optical Zoom online from BuyDig.com for $139 + $20 for an 8gb SD card, with free shipping.
Macro goes down to 5 inches, which is fine for me. It has good image stabilization, self-timer, builtin flash, all that good stuff. I take a 7 or 10mp photo, then use Microsoft Office Picture Manager to manipulate it - crop, adjust colors and brightness/contrast, etc. So far, I'm loving it. So long as I remember to set the white balance properly, I get really good photos, which can be blown up pretty much as big as you like without pixellating.
Just my $.02.
Tom
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Post by Bejewelme on Oct 12, 2009 12:05:21 GMT -5
Tony has some kind of cannon as well, and it takes great pics, all those pics we took on our trip were from the moving car, mine is so slow to focus. I am getting a new camera and it will be a Cannon.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 12, 2009 13:39:49 GMT -5
Canon will do the job and they are inexpencive..............Powershots are the best for the cash.....
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Post by Tonyterner on Oct 12, 2009 14:12:26 GMT -5
My Canon Powershot does OK. Actually I think its more me than the camera. Weeshan takes some great macro shots with her Canon.
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Wolfden
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by Wolfden on Oct 12, 2009 18:13:55 GMT -5
Not any more Tony ... she sat on it one too many times during this last trip and now it looks like it got shot with a bullet in the screen sooo we'r in the market for a new one ... but I do agree that it DID take wonderful pictures and would buy another
Wolf
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2009 18:20:22 GMT -5
For sure.......I will be buying another Canon Powershot SD1000. It took super macro photos. All it took was one trip to catmandewes and it was shot LOL. I guess butt+camera+rock=broken camera. Who'd have thunk it? I bought mine for $250 at Walmart but Ive seen them for $150 on ebay. Shan
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1rockhound
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Post by 1rockhound on Oct 13, 2009 10:15:01 GMT -5
Woody Use your wife's nikon d70. I have been using the same camera for 5 years and you do not necessarily need macro. You should be able to crop your images to extreme closeups. I have never used a macro to take closeups of my rocks and I have taken tens of thousands of photographs with the d70. Or the 250-300 dollars your going to spend on a new camera buy a used nikon macro lens and it will be a far superior quality image than from a point and shoot. Just my 2 cents. Here is a cab picture that was taken with the lens that the nikon d70 came with jason
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Post by Woodyrock on Oct 14, 2009 0:57:18 GMT -5
Jason: Good idea on the used macro. I still have not come to terms with digital cameras. I was a photographer in the Navy...very good training too! I still feel more comfortable with a 4X5 sheet film camera with nothing automatic. Not that I do not see the benefits of digital, it is just the fact the damned things do everything, and I need a book to operate it. Not being able to actually focus a camera is teribly frustrating with the point and shoots. I need to sit down, and play with the D70. Woody
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88pathoffroad
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Post by 88pathoffroad on Oct 17, 2009 0:44:06 GMT -5
These were taken with a Canon Powershot S3 IS in Super Macro mode. It takes super macro pics with the lens touching the subject even! The hard part is getting it lit right. The cuprite crystals in this first pic are less than 1 mm across IIRC. These quartz crystals from Washington are between 1/8" and 1/2" long:
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