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Direct competitor of Kodak. Buying a Fuji is more or less directly equivalent to wanting my local economy to shut down.

Thanks, Babel, that helped a lot. I'm running off to read your articles now!

-Molly
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4 is good ...that means it can focus @4cm which for fish is what you want . Not having a close macro focus isn't a bad thing....it's just I couldnt' live without it .

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Yeah, the camera my sister's lending me has an "11 cm" macro, and my current one is 10, which is why I think it might not be right for me. The Nikon is 4. (As far as I can tell from that site, smaller is better!)
Never really thought my pictures were bad, though, wish someone'd told me earlier!

-Molly
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The optical zoom is the lens-y bit, better than the digital zoom, right?

Correct. Optical is actual zoom, digital is just the camera acting as a photo editor and blowing up the image (more often than not rather poorly too ). If a camera says 10X find out if thats 10X digital, optical or a combanation of the two. There are some 10X optical zooms out there, and there are some that just want to be.

When it comes to fish though, macro focus will be much much more important than zoom.

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I've really been enjoying my new Kodak cx7530. just posted pics I took with it.

The optical zoom is the lens-y bit, better than the digital zoom, right?

-Molly
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I have a canon powershot S50 and i find it extremely easy to use ,it has all the adjustments you could want in a compact digital but the auto feature hardly ever lets me down.the S45 is the older model.

Gibson SG you know you want one!!

almost every camera on the market today has optical zoom, but most don't go above 3x. you can get a nice 3-4MP camera with 10x optical zoom for about $250 at sears and best buy (at least based on places i actually go to )

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Optical Zoom is a must have feature. You want 3x Optical Zoom or more. Babelfish recommended to me the Cannon Powershot A70. It's only 2 MP, but 3x Optical Zoom.. For $300. Canadian I couldn't go wrong. The pics it takes is good enough for me, and I've been lucky to have some remarks made by people who liked some of my shots. Click on my www for an idea... Those pics were all taken without even tapping into any of the features of the camera, and haven't broken my tripod out yet even. They're point and shoot shots.

I know you're going to buy Kodak, just make sure it has optical zoom and macrofocus

The Amazon Nut...

Ohh i see.

Realistically, the time has come to pass my camera down to my little sister and get myself a new one.
Requirement: Digital, excellent macro feature, big with the megapixels, holds a little ScanDisk (not the ones that are like 1.5" by 1.5", this is more like 1" by .6" since I already have several, and any other features y'all deem necessary for shooting fish (I figure any camera that can shoot fish will also be able to take snapshots, so I don't have to specify that!)
Big bonus if it's Kodak, since I live in Rochester (Kodak's hometown - our economy depends a bit too heavily on them, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb). Definitely cannot be Fuji. Nikon okay (not really a competitor per se, and they do make great cameras ... although I'm not sure they're big in digital).
Well, suggest away!

-Molly
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Definitely cannot be Fuji

Whats wrong with Fuji?

Nikon and canon are both great...you run into problems when you try to compair cameras that were released two years apart. You wouldnt' compair a two year old computer with one released today, don't do it with a camera ...plus it's likely that you wont find one for sale, except used.

What to look for when getting a camera to shoot fish with...I had written an article a while back 700 words on purchasing a digital camera which keeps in mind what's important when shooting fish.

Of those two cameras that you posted about the canon and the nikon, the nikon has the closer macro, is cheaper and has a higher MP. From the research I've done and the experiences I've had a 2mp camera shoot good pics...more mp's are good, but not all that necessary, especially if money is a concern.

White balance allows the camera to match the color of the lights. Makes for a more accurate portrayal of color

Macro focus allows the camera to focus on close objects, sometimes symbolised by a small tulip on a button on the back or on the dial.

Film speed lets it shoot fast enough to catch faster fish movement in the lower light conditions of many tanks. You'll see numbers such as 50, 64, 100, 200, 400 and sometimes 800. Bigger the number the faster the camera. However faster film speeds tends to increase ammount of "noise" in the pics.

See what's in you're area, just like fish...do the research...http://www.dpreview.com is IMO one of the best review sites, they've expanded their staff lately, while it is a bit more technical on the photo side than most people are able to understand...I'm just a PM away ... if my box isn't full .

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Thanks.

Anyone have an opinion on the Canon Powershot S45? I realize the chance of someone owning on who's on the site is quite low, but maybe someone who knows more about cameras than I checked up on it at some point. My sister has one she rarely uses and is going to let me "test-drive."

Personally on that DPreview site the one that looked quite good was the Nikon Coolpix 5200, but I still don't know enough about cameras to know if it's actually a good camera or I'm just missing something!

-Molly
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I got a lot of nice information from this site. It is a review site, where you can easily pick out brand, pixels etc. Just check it out.

:hrug:: Yes, but I feel comfortable here, we have a forum dedicated to photos and photo questions, people here are much more likely to know about fish-specific aids and good fish cameras, and frankly I'd just rather ask here if the option's available.

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You can always ask in the forums over at DPreview.com.

Only problem with using a review website: I don't know enough to know what I'm looking for! (And again, where's a blushing smiley when I need one?) Ummm ... for example, the one I'm looking at has "White Balance," which Babel suggested, but I don't know what that means. Help?

-Molly
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I didn't want to say it in your other post but I thought you needed a new digicam. I didn't want to be rude. ]

Anyways, check out these sites for reviews:
http://www.dpreview.com/ <---Arguably the most popular Digicam review/resource on the web!
http://www.epinions.com/Digital_Cameras <---Another good site!



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