digital camera

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I want one. :smiley:
Trying to decide between these:
http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/camera/specification/compare/1586-1528-1482-1483.html
Can anyone help?
Cheers. :slight_smile:

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I think the Panasonics cameras have Leica lenses. I’m obssesive with Leica hardware so its a pick between those two. Pick the 7M if its a price point issue.

my $0.02

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That is absolutely correct, sir!


/Leica FTW
//M5 FTW
///too poor for anything else

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yes, it does. but what I really like about the ricoh is that it has a minimum macro range of 1cm. The panasonics have 5cm. I’m interested in taking close-ups of my carnivorous plants, not sure if 5cm can do the trick?
Anybody have experience in macro-ranges?

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you can get macro adapters.
Personally I wouldn’t settle for the Ricoh just on the basis of the macro feature.

just sayin.

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Tyler, would you go for the panasonic because of the leica lenses, or is there an other reason?
hm…not easy..

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The leica lens woudl be one reason. Another would be because it appears on the surface to be a decent compromise between power and quality for the price. In point-and-shoot digitals, you really don’t want to get into anything over 7mp, because of the increased ammount of noise in the photos taken at higher ASA ratings. There are programs out there to deal with the noise and remove it, but I’d rather not deal with it at all in the first place.
Just MHO.

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I have a Lumix. I’m very pleased with it.

Here’s a couple macro shot examples from my trip to Ireland:

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Whoa! Great snail-cam shot!

djm

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nice!!

Yeah, go for the lumix amar.

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lumix

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We’ve had an earlier Lumix for about a year and a half and are very happy with it. The optical and digital zooms combine to about 15X and it works well at that distance, probably because it also has image stabilization.

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How does the MP rating affect this? Any ASA above about 800 is going to introduce some noise wouldn’t it?

Also, Wouldn’t the size of the CCD chip contribute to this? The smaller the chip, physically, the more noise will be introduced regardless of the MP rating. I thought.

What’s happening here? Will you elaborate?

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They’re trying to squeeze more MPs into the same size ccd, and the result is smaller, less efficient pixels (meaning, weaker signal to the camera’s processor).
Those 8-10MP point-and-shoots will get better resolution at low ISOs, but poorer resolution at higher ISOs, than say a 6-7MP camera.

Here’s some more info, sorry I couldn’t take more time to dig up more; I just got a project dumped into my lap that I thougt I’d have a whole week to complete…ugh.


http://www.dpreview.com/articles/compactcamerahighiso/
http://www.dansdata.com/gz059.htm

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(If anyone can tell me why the first two pics came out the way they did on this board, tell me and I’ll try to fix it).
Don’t know how important it is to you, but I notice that your choices don’t have aperture or shutter priority modes. You’d need to choose a different style of camera such as:

http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/vModelDetail?surfModel=DMC-FZ7K&catalogId=13401&cachePartner=7000000000000005702&modelNo=DMC-FZ7K&itemId=96060&catGroupId=24999&surfCategory=Lumix%26reg%3B&cacheProgram=11002&storeId=15001&displayTab=S

The chunkier, SLR styling is actually quite comfortable to use. I ended up with a comparable Kodak camera (Z612) and have been extremely happy with it.

Shutter priority lets you do cool things like blurring moving water for artistic effects:

Having a long zoom was important to me since while hiking I often see great stuff too far away to otherwise take pics of. These Columbines were clinging to a shale cliff over the Mohawk River and the closest I could safely get was about 20 feet away. Image stabilization lets you get these shots without a tripod:

I just liked this mossy picture:

Note that although my camera is 6mp, I shot these at 4mp to keep file size down. Still not bad.

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It would have been even better if you had linked thumbnails
to the forum to let people go to your image server and view
them at full size over there.

djm

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you guys are making want to go out on a shoot.

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I just tried that, but when I clicked the link, I got the same image. Odd, because all three shots came from the same camera, same resolution, no editing, and all posted on the same host within moments of each other.

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Here is a great website for detailed reviews of digitals:

http://www.steves-digicams.com/

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I’ve been studying nursing too much: I thought you wrote “detailed reviews of digitalis…”