John Larkin wrote:

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:19:02 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

As promised, here is a photo taken in macro mode at four inches. It is
the bottom side of a IBM Deskstar DTLA-307030 hard drive.

I have that same camera, two of them in fact. It seems fine for
vacation type pictures, but the autofocus is erratic, manual focus is
useless, and macro doesn't seem to do much of anything. And the menus
and manual are a mess. The popup flash is most annoying. I just got a
Sony 7mpix camera that seems better, with its own quirks of course.


It is a huge improvement over the Kodak C320 or Aiptek M5100 that I
already had. The Kodak was fixed focus at infinity, and the closest you
could focus the Aiptek in macro mode was 12 feet.

The new camera is intended for gathering photos for Veterans events
for the new "Marion County, Fl. Veteran's News & Information" website.
There won't be a lot of call for the Macro function for these types of
photos, but it is nice to have. Most shots will be of events at the
Veteran's Park, the various Veteran's groups and events like the 3/5
scale model of "The Wall" that has all the names of those lost during
Vietnam. The new moving wall was here last weekend, and the restored
WWII War birds that were here a few weeks earlier.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida