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Good camera for bee photos?
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Posted by terry94705 SF Bay (My Page) on Wed, Jul 20, 05 at 12:25
| I'm trying to get photos of native bees and butterflies in my garden. My Canon S30 is not equipped for this kind of close work. And its start up time is slow, so whaterver you were planning to shoot is gone by the time the camera is ready.
Does anyone know a good digital camera with this capability in the $300-$500 range? I'm finding the camera stores don't have batteries in many of their digitals, so you can't test them out!
Terry |
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| You might be able to find a good used digital camera that had good features but not the 'latest and greatest' advances [i.e., a camera that has been traded in by a new-gadget-oriented shutterbug] to solve your problem. I've got a Nikon that originally would have been beyond your price range, but it's 3 years old, and I've found that 5 megapixels is perfectly fine for getting lovely close-ups of bees. I've found that setting the focus on a set of flowers _before_ the actual shot also increases the likelihood that when the bee arrives, I'm ready to shoot. |
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| If you can get close enough, I found that a Olimpus Camedia set on the macro setting works well. Ours is a sorry 3.5mpx but I printed a huge 16x20) beautiful backlit broodframe picture from it with some help from Photoshop. Even sold a few. Had to get all bundled up in a beesuit though. |
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| those are awesome!!! Would it be ok if I saved some to my picture file on the computer? Just thought I would ask first. |
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| wow, carol!!!!!!!!!!!!! i especially love the dragonfly on the poppy. i can't believe that is a 2.2 mp. where would someone go to find trade in cameras? |
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