Macro Photography - Replacement for Coolpix 995
Macro Photography - Replacement for Coolpix 995
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I'm looking for a camera for documenting materials
problems and failure analysis. I used to use a
Nikon 995 for this kind of work. The ability
to do quick macro photography is important.
Are there any currently made digital cameras with
similar versatility? Looking through reviews, it looks
like a Fuji FinePix E510 or Minolta DiMAGE Z10 might
have similar macro capability.
Anyone have first hand experience?
Stephen Powell
problems and failure analysis. I used to use a
Nikon 995 for this kind of work. The ability
to do quick macro photography is important.
Are there any currently made digital cameras with
similar versatility? Looking through reviews, it looks
like a Fuji FinePix E510 or Minolta DiMAGE Z10 might
have similar macro capability.
Anyone have first hand experience?
Stephen Powell





RE: Macro Photography - Replacement for Coolpix 995
If you are looking for a US$200 camera for macro work, I think just about anything will work. Your suggested cameras appear to be capable.
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Cory
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RE: Macro Photography - Replacement for Coolpix 995
To look for (in my order of importance, but all are important):
1. SLR
2. Manual focus capability (the E-10 has a selector switch)
3. Optical Zoom (rather than digital) capability
4. Batteries: If the camera can run on AA's that's great - you can always find them, but not always find the weird camera batteries sometimes needed if you find yourself with a dead battery and off in the middle of nowhere.
5. Option to control aperture - sometimes a depth of feld is more important to you than it is to the computer driving the automatic camera. A smaller aperture will require a slower shutter speed, but this might make the difference between a decent close-up of a fracture surface and one that has part of the area of interest out of focus.
Hope this helps.
RE: Macro Photography - Replacement for Coolpix 995
I would like to try a Proscope for this. http://www.theproscope.com/
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