This may sound stupid, but you never know.
Is there wheel or something with a face, a mountain, somebody running, etc.
Make sure that wheel or whatever is not set to the mountain.
"Scott Moore" wrote in message
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Grant Erwin wrote:
I'm no shutterbug. I'm using a digital camera that cost about $200. It
isn't a fancy Nikon which allows you to swap lenses or anything remotely
like that. Still, it ought to be able to take a closeup of something
about the size of a golf ball. I simply can't make it shoot anything
clear.
It has a zoom button. It has "macro mode". It has autofocus, and I know
about putting something like a playing card at the right distance and
holding the button halfway down to hold the autofocus and then shooting
the object. I get pictures that are semi-usable but nothing at all that
can really be said to be in focus. I believe I've tried all 4
permutations
of zoom and macro mode.
Is it me, or the camera? If me, what should I do differently? If it's
the
camera, what other camera works better?
BTW, what I'm shooting are details of my die filer for the die filer Web
page I'm building. I know there is probably a more specifically correct
NG
but I'm real used to this one and we have many knowledgeable regulars.
Grant Erwin
Kirkland, Washington
Its the camera. I have a Casio with that sort of limitation. That is one
reason
why the professionals still prefer to get a standard 35 mm camera fitted
with a
digital imager instead of film.
Besides this common limit on digital cameras, they are also sharply
limited on
speed. Film has been greatly improved towards the end of the century, with
the
result that color high speed films are common. With digital, you need to
have lots of light, or no movement in the image, and the dark pictures are
really bad. The problem is that the camera makers have been pushing
resolution
above all else, and the response time of the current imagers is very bad.
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