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Subject: 
Re: Digital Camera
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lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Sun, 31 Dec 2000 08:39:16 GMT
Reply-To: 
mattdm@mattdm/ihatespam/.org
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Peter A. Vogel <pavogel@pacbell.net> wrote:
(for righties!) out there right now.  The swivel head of the Nikon is good
for the "gee whiz" effect, but the fact is, (and I know many owners of
the Nikon who concur) most of the time you won't use it, and it can be
more of a hindrance than a help when you don't need it.  At this point the

I couldn't disagree more. I *love* the swivel when composing shots from the
LCD, which is what I do mostly. I wouldn't buy a digital camera without this
feature.

(And if you don't like the swivel, the Nikon 800 is still a nice
camera -- most of the features of the 950 minus the swivel.)

--
Matthew Miller                     --->                 mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                    --->              http://quotes-r-us.org/
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(...) I'll speak up in favor of the 800 as well. I love it. I took it as my primary camera on my honeymoon (to London) and got some absolutely incredible shots. J (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Digital Camera
 
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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