On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:51:53 +1000, Rob Studdert wrote: >On 22 Dec 2002 at 8:21, Leon Altoff wrote: > >> I have yet to find a digital camera (I'll admit to only >> having tried about 7 different models over time) that handles closeup >> work anywhere near as well as I want. > >Borrow an Olympus E-10 or E-20. Manual focus, optical and LCD finders, problem >solved (for the mean time). Aperture to f11, due to the short actual FL any >smaller aperture would rob the image of sharpness. Email me for samples.
I can only borrow what other people have to lend me unfortunately, beggers can't be choosers as they say. The 5700 that I used does have manual focus, but all it shows is a sliding scale with no actual distance on it - if it does have that mode then the manual does not say how to enter it, because I read everything under manual focus (and autofocus for that matter) after it annoyed me so much on the first day. I changed the autofocus mode to selectable 5 zones of autofocus which is better than letting it do the selection point from almost anywhere on the frame. F11 would have been nice, it ran out at about 7 or so (it depended on where the zoom was set to). The optical finder was just another LCD screen that you had to look through a window to see, and seemed to me to be lower res than the screen on the back. I'm waiting for a digital SLR before I buy a digital camera. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon
