I recomend the nikon coolpix950. thats what I use and it now costs about $400. You get good pictures of small things and large things and it is great to travel with. I cant comment on the taking photos through a microscope as I havent tried that. So it might not be the best for that. I wouldent recomend buying really cheap digital cameras because you will regret it later (I know - I wish that I had learned from others mistakes when I first bought a digital camera). And you dont need a better camera than the 950 because if you did you wouldent be asking this question in the first place - because you would have special needs that you would know about (Except the taking of photos through a microscope which I cant comment on). My camera has very heavy use (Takes many thousands of photos a month) and hasnt been taken proper care of as good as I should be taking care of it and has been used in dusty sandy desert conditions getting sand all over it 7 or 8 times. It is 2 1/2 years old and I havent had a problem with it yet and it works just as good as the day that I bought it (Although when I bought it it was a top of the line $1500 camera). You need those special rechargable batteries. You get about 12 pictures with 4 duracels and then they are done. The camera is power mad. Thats my opinion anyway. Good balance between cost and features/quality/usefullness. Cheers DEAN >
>From: Alexander Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [meteorite-list] Digital camera and meteorites >Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:28:35 +0100 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from [216.92.1.92] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBE57BEEC00244004311AD85C015C08E50; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:32:32 -0800 >Received: from pairlist.net (localhost.pair.com [127.0.0.1])by pairlist.net >(Postfix) with ESMTPid 5FD045364A; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:31:07 -0500 (EST) >Received: from mu.pair.com (mu.pair.com [209.68.1.23])by pairlist.net >(Postfix) with SMTP id 0330B53572for ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:30:17 >-0500 (EST) >Received: (qmail 50534 invoked by uid 7111); 12 Mar 2002 21:31:34 -0000 >Received: (qmail 50525 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 21:31:33 -0000 >Received: from mx1.12move.de (HELO smtp.tiscali.de) (62.26.124.141) by >mu.pair.com with SMTP; 12 Mar 2002 21:31:33 -0000 >Received: (qmail 79684 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 21:30:59 -0000 >Received: from unknown (HELO planet-interkom.de) (195.63.143.186) by >smtp1.tiscali.de with SMTP; 12 Mar 2002 21:30:59 -0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:34:08 >-0800 >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: >arthur-meteoritecentral:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: my own >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD QXW0323l (Windows NT 5.0; U) >X-Accept-Language: de,en >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 >Precedence: bulk >List-Help: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help> >List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Subscribe: ><http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list>,<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe> >List-Id: <meteorite-list.meteoritecentral.com> >List-Unsubscribe: ><http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list>,<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/> > >Hi list, > >with a new (secondary, Mo thru Fri) place to live for professional >reasons and a brandnew computer, I am now looking for a good quality >digital camera. This may sound a bit off-topic on the one hand, and I >may beat an old horse on the other hand, as this was already discussed >a good while ago, but actually I am thinking about photographing my >meteorite hand-specimen collection and thin section collection (with >the aid of my MBC-10 microscope) for the sake of documentation, >enjoyment and last but not least transfer of one or the other Jpeg >amongst meteorite friends. > >Likely opinions and/or recommendations have changed since this topic >was discussed the last time, and high-end-cameras of two years ago may >well be mainstream cameras right now - but surely I am no expert on >this. > >My question is: what would you folks, experienced with the use of >digital cameras along with meteorites, recommend as "a good, >reasonably priced" camera for this purpose? It really must not be a >high-end-high-price-product, but should work properly and yield good >results both with and without the microscope. What about zooming down >to details and what about resolution? > >Any recommendations for my potential purchase will be highly >appreciated. > >Thanks, >Alex >Berlin/Germany > > > >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list _____________________________________________________________________ You dont have to go to NASA to get a Rock from outer space. Or even from the Planet Mars or the Moon. You just have to visit the Meteorite Shop. www.meteoriteshop.com _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
