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cheap camera - good features

cheap camera - good features

Sorry about your camera; they only steal good stuff...

As a former photog and instructor, I used a lot of inexpensive tricks before digital. Having a tri-pod was as important as being able to lock the shutter open. Special lighting and "painting" was an good trick for fill lighting large objects and areas. Minimum focusing distance was the other big hitter. I had a couple of cheap close-up lens that I used for as close as an inch. Nothing was easy, and everything took practice.
 
I use a kodak easyshare 2710 and I don't think it takes to bad of pictures..

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So I am happy..
 
Last x-mas my mom wanted protraits - nothing small either, 24x30" - and where the hell are you gonna get portraits done last minute.

So I rented a full on pro-package with a few lenses, lights, reflectors, stands - whole nine... And this bad guy for $500 for the weekend over the holidays. (got one day free because they were closed monday) Even came with 30 days of photoshop - the good one... So I did portraits of EVERYONE! Came out great! And I can get prints at 20x30 for $55, and larger for not much more.

The camera is $5k to start - I highly recomend it - great macro and low light shots - resolution that is just out of this world.... Just need to skip a morgage payment or so... :rolleyes:
 
I appreciate the comments and the helpful guiding along in the posts.

One of the problems is always $$. I also have many cameras.
1. knocked out of my hand by acident on a job - sits on my shelf for now
2. One I dropped - also on the same shelf
3. my wife now has it
4. a point & shoot I take with me for comparison pictures
5. The "bridge" type camera - which I did buy the lower cost one - jury is still out yet


I do take a lot of pictures for inspection records.

I do have an ULTIMATE goal/reason for the pictures though...it will be a secret until I am ready to let the cat out of the bag...maybe a few more weeks. ;)
Don't ask, as I will not tell.
 
Pierre C Belarge said:
I do have an ULTIMATE goal/reason for the pictures though...it will be a secret until I am ready to let the cat out of the bag...maybe a few more weeks. ;)
Don't ask, as I will not tell.
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What's the reason?
 
Pierre C Belarge said:
Dennis
That is pretty cool.
How did you do that?
What other tricks can you teach this old dog?
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I used a program called "Photoshop" by adobe. It is used to enhance pictures and do all kinds of interesting things. I can make the picture a grayscale, red, etc. You can clone things as I did in this picture-- notice the extra pipe and pole.

Not a good job but I am rushing to leave here.

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Pierre, If you're really concerned about your photo quality get a camera that can shoot in the RAW format. This would allow you to edit/adjust just about every part of the photo on your computer in Adobe Photoshop or even better, use Photomatics for HDR editing. Almost every great digital photo you have ever seen has had it's content enhanced by some type of software.
 
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I need to speak out in favor of Canon, since it has been out-posted 2 to 1 by Nikon users.

Canon 20D, 70-200mm F/4L lens:
 
charlie b said:
I need to speak out in favor of Canon, since it has been out-posted 2 to 1 by Nikon users.

Canon 20D, 70-200mm F/4L lens:
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Add me to the list of Nikon users. Nice photo, looks like a decoy from Cabela's catalog. :wink:
 
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