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mat2bird
Joined: 31 Dec 2004
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crp
Joined: 26 Oct 2004
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Location: Colorado - USA
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:14 pm
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Sure can!
You'll need to be watchful of the cropping you do. Too much, and it will not make the minimum demensions necessary. Composition is key, along with subject, and lighting, and make sure that it is set to it's highest possible setting and don't upsize it.
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Remyrw
Joined: 15 Feb 2005
Posts: 171
Location: Slidell, LA
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:53 pm
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I use a Coolpix 880 for pure digital work right now and while i haven't uploaded any of my work from it yet I don't expect any trouble there as long as I don't crop much if at all. I am very careful with my composition anyway and tend to do my cropping in camera so that's rarely an issue. Also, if you use a lower MP camera, don't use the digital zoom if your camera has it, that's eating into your true resolution even though the full number of pixels is there. The reason for the MP lower limit isn't cause they like to count pixels but because they want enough detail, so low quality lenses or using digital zoom will hurt. |
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StuartE
Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 1606
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:55 pm
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The Canon PowerShot S1IS is emminently suitable for stock photography - it's 3.2 mp, 10X optical zoom, gives clear, vibrant colours with minimal chromic abberation, and is image stabilised to help keep handheld shots crisper, less camera shake, etc - the macro mode is good for close ups, etc - the key, as stated, is to take your shots so you don't need to crop - with a 10X zoom to play with, composition's a doddle, even if you're too lazy to move to fill the frame...
Cheers,
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Bmaintz
Joined: 24 Nov 2004
Posts: 398
Location: Ocean Springs, Mississippi
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:31 pm
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The Canon A85 (4.2mp) can be bought for $204 including shipping (Beach Camera)... The Canon A75 (3.2mp) will be around $50 less...... |
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Nir Levy
Joined: 16 Jan 2005
Posts: 282
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:53 pm
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| StuartE wrote: | The Canon PowerShot S1IS is emminently suitable for stock photography - it's 3.2 mp, 10X optical zoom, gives clear, vibrant colours with minimal chromic abberation, and is image stabilised to help keep handheld shots crisper, less camera shake, etc - the macro mode is good for close ups, etc - the key, as stated, is to take your shots so you don't need to crop - with a 10X zoom to play with, composition's a doddle, even if you're too lazy to move to fill the frame...
Cheers,
Stuart |
That's the camera I have right now and it's a great camera. It would be perfect if it wasn't so bad at autmatic focusing really close or in bad lighting. |
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crp
Joined: 26 Oct 2004
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Location: Colorado - USA
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:29 pm
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I'm shooting both SLR & Digital. But when I shoot digital, I use 3 different one's; 1) Vivitar 3815, 4MP, 2) SVP 6.1MP, 3) Nikon E4100, 4.0MP.
All of which produce a very nice result, with little to no noise. In addition to what the others have stated above, and that may follow, I'm sure any will fit the bill. The Vivitar can be had for about $149 at Walmart of all places. Best place to shop is eBay for a great deal. Seen a 10.0MP on there for less then $300.
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GeneralE
Joined: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 375
Location: Oakland, California
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:17 pm
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| Nir Levy wrote: | | StuartE wrote: | The Canon PowerShot S1IS is emminently suitable for stock photography - it's 3.2 mp, 10X optical zoom, gives clear, vibrant colours with minimal chromic abberation, and is image stabilised to help keep handheld shots crisper, less camera shake, etc - the macro mode is good for close ups, etc - the key, as stated, is to take your shots so you don't need to crop - with a 10X zoom to play with, composition's a doddle, even if you're too lazy to move to fill the frame...
Cheers,
Stuart |
That's the camera I have right now and it's a great camera. It would be perfect if it wasn't so bad at autmatic focusing really close or in bad lighting. |
I have one of these too ... besides these concerns it is pretty bad for things like motion-panning because of the Electonic ViewFinder. But the 10x zoom with the IS lens ro... er rather doesn't rock. I use it a lot to get close to architecture up on the 2nd floor, flags, etc. The shutter-lag is pretty bad, but overall I still like it. It has a great movie mode (including zoom while recording) if you want that flexibility, and uses cheap CF media and AA batteries.
Whoa ... I just re-read the quotes -- what "macro mode" is that? I understood it didn't have one ... |
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StuartE
Joined: 28 Nov 2004
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Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:26 am
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All the S1IS's I've used have - I even showed CathieT how hers worked... so I'm pretty much sure it does... I do handle a lot of Canon camera's, but I know I demonstrated 'getting close' to Cathie, and that's the camera she bought...
Cheers,
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tiberius
Joined: 23 Dec 2004
Posts: 32
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:40 am
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| Bmaintz wrote: | | The Canon A85 (4.2mp) can be bought for $204 including shipping (Beach Camera)... The Canon A75 (3.2mp) will be around $50 less...... |
Go for one of those.
Not too much room for croping so you have to take care on composition. Some of my crops (then enlarged) suffered from artifacts and got rejected.
Check my porofolio wich is shot with A70.
They are great cameras for the bucks and they give you plenty of manual features. I shot my pics mainly in manual mode (or AV mode) costum WB. For macros I shot 50% of times with manual focus.
I guess A85 will be a little better for the extra MP.
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sudhi
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Posts: 69
Location: Pune, India
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:44 am
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Hi,
I use a Fujifilm Finepix F420 3.0 mega pixel camera. Its good for point and shoot, not much of manual control there. In manual mode you can only control the EV seting and white balance. The best feature i liked in this camera is the macro mode. The results are good. The down side being the 3x zoom, u need a good 10x zoom, so look out for that feature.
Cheers!
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