Looking for a new camera...

[Sully008]

Hello all,

After my rather horrendous pics I took of my Date/Command and Space watch I'm in the market for a new camera. Everyone here seems to be able to take beautiful close up pics of their watches, I was just wondering what everyone's using for a camera? My current one is just a Fuji 5.1mp digital point/shoot.

TIA,

Mike

[Led-Time]

Canon EOS 30D, 8mp DSLR with a 24-135mm lens which gives good range for close-up shots.

[Fitron]

I get decent results using a canon point n shoot on the tulip setting (macro).

[Sully008]

Thanks for the replies, gents! My camera doesn't have a Macro setting. Maybe that's what I should look for in a new one.

[Led-Time]

Check out here - http://www.dpreview.com/ - this is the digital camera review website.

One thing to remember its not the amount of megapixels thats important, the camera needs a good quality lens no matter what type it is.

[charger105]

I've got a fairly old 4M Kodak with 3x optical zoom, which took terrible photos of watches until I discovered the macro setting, and bought a tripod.

These two things made a masssive difference.
Rgds,
Andrew.

[Sully008]

Check out here - http://www.dpreview.com/ - this is the digital camera review website.

One thing to remember its not the amount of megapixels thats important, the camera needs a good quality lens no matter what type it is.

Thanks for the link Klippie. I'll be spending several hours there checking things out.

charger105: Those are the two things I don't have currently. Well, I have a tripod, just never used it.