Hello It´s been a long time since I posted here. My request is slightly off-topic, but not that much. I want to include a good digital camera for a forthcoming grant proposal here at our lab, and I could really use some advice on any model/brand that any of you have recently purchased, specially regarding distortion in macro mode. I used a Coolpix 995 (not mine...) during the data collection for my PhD research, but these things are ceased to be produced so fast that once you find a good camera you can´t recommend it to anyone six months later because it´s not for sale anymore! I realize that the best choice would be a digital slr with a good quality macro lens, unortunately this still has a prohibitive cost for us. My concern is that several advanced point and shoot digital camera (or whatever they call them) have the macro position in the wide angle end of the zoom, resulting in quite some distortion, which can be quite harmful for later morphometric analyses... We work with small rodent and marsupial skulls, some like 2 cm long, thus the need for a macro/close-up option. Anyone out there could point me to a parituclar model they like? Thanks in advance Diego
Diego Astúa de Moraes, D.Sc. Laboratório de Mastozoologia Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524 20559-900 Rio de Janeiro RJ - BRASIL Tel. (0xx21) 2587 7980 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
