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Re: Digital Camera
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lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:44:30 GMT
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mattdm@mattdmSPAMLESS.org
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Bram Lambrecht <bram@cwru.edu> wrote:
The camera also takes excellent pictures in low lighting...and if the
automatic settings don't give the results you desire, everything is also
manual if you want it to be...focus, aperture, shutter, post-processing,
flash, etc.

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
regular film-eating point-and-shoot camera, but the Nikons are actually
designed to be digital cameras, and it shows.



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(...) 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- (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) I have had a 990 for a month or two now, and I love it! (I got it for $836 at pcwonders.com) The twist body design is really useful because you can tilt the LCD so you can look in a different direction than the lens is pointed...for example, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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