Lynne wrote:
<Can I ask what camera you use? I'm being tempted at the moment by a camera
that can do 18x optical zoom but also macro for lace. So if anyone has any
experience of a Fuji Finepix S8000fd (or even the very new S8100fd) I'd be
very interested. >
DH has this camera - his fifth! He's a very keen photographer of local
wildlife, scenery and action shots (eg jetskiers in the harbour) but doesn't
want to use an SLR. He says it's the best camera he has had. He says any
lens with that range of zoom you get barrelling or convergence, but he feels
it's minimal with this camera, and anything that is noticeable is easily
corrected with Photoshop Elements. Anything he prints, is on A4 and he
usually crops pictures before printing, so the resolution is impressive. He
also adds that even hand-held at super-macro it's the steadiest camera he's
used with no little blurring of the image, which would disappear with a
tripod, so it would be ideal for close-ups of lace.
Camera 3 was an expensive Cannon, but the sensor went on that after just
over a year - apparently common with the model he had. So he wasn't
impressed. Other than that he's has 2 Olympus and a Panasonic.
I got his second Olympus camera as a hand-me down. I'm not complaining that
it's a few years old now - it does everything I want it to. He says that's
the best he's had photowise, but it was a pain to use because you had to
keep going into the menu.
He says, if you want, he'll take a picture of something you choose and send
it privately so you can see what it's like, bearing in mind it will be a
large file.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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