Hello Michael and list. I would really go for a Digital Camera if you don't want your pictures for a serious work. I have a digital camera too, its a Kodak 1 megapixel and its quite good, I got it for $160 a year ago, you can get one better for that price now. The Sony Cybershot has a lot of functions, including one for taking closeups, thats taking a picture too close to the object, less than an inch from the object and those are great photos, you can get a 2.2 megapixel Sony for about $220, but if you want a really professional they go for about $500 or more, but you won't regret that camera. Cannon, Nikkon and Sony are great deals, and the Kodak I have works pretty good, I take all pictures of my meteorites with that camera. Im not a professional photographer for close-ups, but what I do is that I choose the best resolution in the options and I take the photo of the meteorite from the shortest distance of focus and then use a Corel Draw to edit the picture, like increase brightness, auto-equalize, etc and the cut it to only the meteorite part and they work pretty good. Or what you can do too is get a camera with zoom (optical zoom works better) and the make the close-up with the camera zoom, and they will work too. As Michael said the pint is illumination. I take all pictures outside in the sun, and the photos are better there, or you can do it indoors with a white light flashlight and digital will equalize the light color. I have some photos that Ive taken with my camera in:
http://www.geocities.com/rafael_blando (meteorites and fossils) http://www.geocities.com/frijolconpatas (scenic views around my city) But what I recommend if you can afford a $300 camera buy the Sony Cybershot 2.2 Megapixel or the Cannon A40 model, you can get them at Best Buy for about that price, but those are good cameras����� =0) Rafael B. Torres Space Collection 2001 http://www.geocities.com/rafael_blando _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
