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Posted by Peter Llewellyn on 29/6/2007, 9:25 pm, in reply to "Digital cameras" A macro mode or lens is essential but most good cameras do that. Also it's useful to have one which has a High maximum ISO setting for taking photos in places where there is never enough natural light like woodland. Flash is Ok but never looks right in a flower photo. In compact Digital cameras the manual focus is usually either absent or total rubbish which means that taking photos of sedges, grasses, horsetails or ferns is tricky as the camera can't discern the green subject from the green background. There are ways round this like holding a coloured object next to the subject to enable the camea to focus and taking the photo with one hand at high speed after the coloured object has been removed. Really for green things against green backgrounds you need a Digital SLR. If you will only be taking photos of coloured flowers against contrasting bcakgrounds then a comact with 5 megapixels or more would be OK. Don't believe people who tell you that the number of pixels doesn't matter - it does. Many of our wild flowers are small so when you look at the photo it will be be small bit in the centre of the frame which you then crop. The more pixels there are the less rough the image will be of a small flower when enlarged (as a rule). However you get what you pay for just like most things. If you buy a camera with anti-shake built in then that helps considerably.
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The more you pay the more controls you gain over the various settings.
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