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| I'm looking into picking up a digital camera and thought some of us here might have some good suggestions. I'm a very casual photographer, so I don't need built-in X-ray lenses or anything, but can someone recommend a good value in the neighborhood (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) pictures." (...) I don't really have any suggestions, just some pointers... we use a Mavica-FD88 for all our pictures, and found that for LEGO, a macro capability is very very important - zoom much less so. We also like saving the data to a (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Definitely. It's also good to have one that takes good pictures in low light, since you want to avoid using a flash with lego. (Too shiny.) Check out (URL) for good digital camera reviews. (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| (...) Yes, as has been mentioned, a closeup macro is a very important feature for photographing LEGO. Also, take note of the focus depth. A few months ago I was helping one of my fellow SEALUG'ers investigate cameras, and I think we found that the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) It's cool because in the macro mode, things *more* than a few centimeters out of where you're focusing are slightly blurry. This lends the impression that the scene is full human scale instead of miniature. (23 years ago, 27-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Thank you to everyone for your input. One thing that strikes me as particularly amusing is that everyone is giving suggestions for cameras that photograph LEGO models well, but I should probably have specified that I'd be taking pictures of (...) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Why would you want to do that, Dave! (Ending a sentence with Dave! W00T! Hey, I did it again!) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Other stuff, eh? Like what? You seem pretty vague on the details, Dave! -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Other stuff he asks knowingly, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more! Martin :-) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) :) well, sure. But I think you'll find that a) most digital cameras out there work pretty well for general purpose stuff, and b) you'll be able to find a lot of information and reviews in general, but very few of them will mention the camera's (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes: <snip>... One thing that strikes me as (...) </snip> ......... I'm in a similar predicament. "Which camera ?" "Other stuff" - well, maybe sometimes. * But it's important to me to be able to do some lego (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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