Digi Cam

[BladeMan]

i'm planning to buy a new digital camera, can anybody recommend an affordable camera with good quality for taking knife pictures?
thanks for any help
Ray

 

[p1445]

I am also looking at purchasing a digital camera. I'm leaning towrads an olympus now.


try: www.imaging-resource.com

 

[Mike Turber]

If you need very good resolution I would highly recommend the Kodak DC-265 or DC-280.

Many of the pics we make here for BFC and the web sites we build use images done on the DC-260 which is last years model.

Also you can scan knives on a good scanner if the blades are not too shiny

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[Kirk D]

I've had an Olympus 300 DL for about 3 years now. Ran $899 when I bought it. I've really been happy with it's picture quality (1024x768), it's handiness, and software.

The only thing I didn't like was it's fixed length lens. It is the equivilent of a 35mm lens, on a 35mm camera.

I recently bought another Olympus (yes, I *like* the Olympus system <g>)... 1280x..960? Something like that, anyway. I think it's an Olympus 500. Don't have it with me right now.. but it was $499, I think, it has a 3X zoom, and I'm *really* happy with it.

No cost except batteries, once you have the camera... unless you wanna print a pic. My Epson 850 does a very good job printing, on glossy inkjet "photo quality" paper. Up to 8x10 comes out very good.

 

[RGRAY]

INHO there are two REALLY good cameras (around $850). The Toshiba PDR-M5 and the Olympus C 2000z. All the features you will need. I bought the Toshiba yesterday,and I love it. Do your homework and read up on them, but these are the best in this price range. The only negative are the view finder on the Toshiba is a little blurry and the Olympus uses four batteries (pain in the a**).

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[Joel Stave]

PC Magazine did a whole article on digital cameras. Take a peek at http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2376144,00.html

 

[Radioman]

Cnet.com has a good section on <A HREF="http://electronics.cnet.com/html/aisles/Digital_Cameras.asp" TARGET="_blank">digital cameras</A>.

I personally have a Ricoh RDC-5000. Takes great pics (1800x1200). Good macro capability for knives too.

More sources of info:
<A HREF="http://photo.askey.net/" TARGET="_blank">Digital Photography Review</A>
<A HREF="http://www.imaging-resource.com/" TARGET="_blank">Imaging Resource</A>
<A HREF="http://www.megapixel.net/html/issueindex.html" TARGET="_blank">Megapixel.net</A>
<A HREF="http://www.pcphotoreview.com/" TARGET="_blank">PC Photo Review</A>
<A HREF="http://www.steves-digicams.com/" TARGET="_blank">Steve's Digicams</A>
<A HREF="http://www.dcresource.com/" TARGET="_blank">Digital Camera Resource Page</A>

A. Dale McLean
<A HREF="http://www.nt.net/~admclean/Index.htm" TARGET="_blank">ADaM Sharps Cutlery - <FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Canadian</FONT> Knife Dealer</A>


[This message has been edited by Radioman (edited 29 October 1999).]

 

[dano]

I just picked up an Olympus D-340R...1280X960 Res. 1.3 megapixels, uses a little smartmedia card. Also got the floppy adaptor, so I can just put the card in the floppy adaptor, and get the photos, w/out using the serial cable, etc...

At my work, we use Sony Mavica's to take pics of subjects, recovered merch., evidence...the res. isn't that high, but it uses 3.5" floppies, which is really convenient.

--dan

 

[Radioman]

Nice thing about the RDC-5000 is the USB port. You just "hot plug" the camera to the computer and two new drives pop up in Explorer. Takes less than 2 seconds to upload a 750k pic to hard drive (or directly into PhotoShop)

A. Dale McLean
<A HREF="http://www.nt.net/~admclean/Index.htm" TARGET="_blank">ADaM Sharps Cutlery - <FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Canadian</FONT> Knife Dealer</A>