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    Digital Camera? —Dave Schuler
   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)
   
        Re: Digital Camera? —Dan Boger
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Digital Camera? —Matthew Miller
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: Digital Camera? —Mark Sandlin
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Digital Camera? —Matthew Miller
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: Digital Camera? —Dave Schuler
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Digital Camera? —Mark Sandlin
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: Digital Camera? —Richard Marchetti
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Digital Camera? —Martin Scragg
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: Digital Camera? —Matthew Miller
     (...) :) 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)
   
        Re: Digital Camera? —Ronan Webb
   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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