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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> Although many people are recommending Olympus's cameras, I personally find
> them to have terrible ergonomics. They may be fine if you're used to a
> regular film-eating point-and-shoot camera, but the Nikons are actually
> designed to be digital cameras, and it shows.
Coming to the opposite conclusion: I appreciated the shape of the Olympus, and
hated the Nikon shape. The Nikon swivel head was intriguing, but I got a better
one-handed operating grip on the Olympus. The right half of the camera is wedge-
shaped. (No help for lefties there.) I can firmly grip the camera while still
manipulating controls as I look through the viewfinder.
Aside from Nikon and Olympus, many other boxy, rectangular, *small* cameras
(Kodak, Fuji, Canon) need to be held by the fingertips from both hands--no
points scored there.
Still, now that I've been shooting in all sorts of situations, I would like to
try out a Nikon swivel-head for some cases. Not outdoors, but definitely on
closeups. The Olympus has good macro mode but you have to look straight through
the viewfinder! I'm even considering going back to a (state of the art) 640x480
USB cam for closeups in tight spaces.
I wonder if the new 10x optical zoom (Olympus 2100) does well in macro...
-Erik
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| As far as macro shots go (especially LEGO) I use the LCD for composing the shot, since that gives me an SLR effect and what I see is almost exactly what I will get in my shot. With any non-SLR camera, macro mode is near useless since parallax is (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) The Nikon cameras also have an excellent macro mode -- very nice for taking Lego pictures. Although many people are recommending Olympus's cameras, I personally find them to have terrible ergonomics. They may be fine if you're used to a (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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