Lawrence,
I've been using a Sony Mavica 81 and I LOVE it! I has 1024 x 768
resolution and a 3X **** Optical***** zoom. Many of the cameras out there
use a digital zoom. That just blows up a portion of your image and you get
a bigger picture but lower resolution. A digital zoom is worthless IMHO.
I've been able to focus in on lots of circuit boards and the like with the
Sony without having a Macro capability. Take a look at
"
http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/don-ad.htm". There are links there to
several pictures that I took with the Sony. This were just a quick and
dirty web page for a friend of mine to advertise his stuff and I didn't
take much care to get the best possible picture. Also you should be aware
that ALL the current cameras except the Sonys require Windozes 95 or 98
just to download your pictures to a PC. The Sonys use 3.5" floppy disk in
the camera and save the pictures as standard JPEG files.
Joe
At 07:26 PM 7/13/99 GMT, you wrote:
>I've been seriously considering buying a digital camera for some time now.
>I assume others on this list already have these in order to photograph
>some of their computer items, so i thought I would ask which features
>are most important. And which features you really wish you'd spent extra
>money for.
>
>It seems to me that a macro-focusing feature, which allows you to
>manually focus at very close range would be very useful. Or can
>you get by with a 3X optical zoom in order to get detailed shots
>of computer boards, or the insides of a computer, etc?
>
>How important is high resolution? Is a 640x480 camera with 10X
>zoom much more useful than a 1280x960 with 3X zoom and
>no macro focusing?
>
>I'm really only interested in photographing computers and circuit boards,
>I assume anything that can handle that to my satisfaction will be able
>to handle the occasional photo of my niece and nephews, etc.
>
>-Lawrence LeMay
> lemay_at_cs.umn.edu
>
Received on Tue Jul 13 1999 - 21:46:36 BST