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Don Stauffer in Minnesota - 06 Feb 2008 14:15 GMT

My wife gave me a Nikon D40X for Christmas. I find it is a great
camera for modeling. It came with a Nikor 18-55mm lens, which I find a
good lens for model photography. Many macro lenses are macro only on
the longest (most zoomed) focal length. This little lens is macro at
ALL focal lengths. Long (telephoto) focal lengths compress depth,
while wide angle expands depth. I like to take model photos a bit
wider than normal perspective.

Ordinarily I use a regular zoom plus add a "closeup" lens. With this
lens I do not need to do that. Just zoom in to set the focus, then
zoom out to the focal length I want and the lens holds focus.

So if you are looking for a new camera for modeling, get one of the
D40x kits with that lens.

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Rufus - 06 Feb 2008 14:37 GMT

> My wife gave me a Nikon D40X for Christmas. I find it is a great
> camera for modeling. It came with a Nikor 18-55mm lens, which I find a
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> So if you are looking for a new camera for modeling, get one of the
> D40x kits with that lens.

All of the Nikons have outstanding macro modes - I use a Coolpix S-6
now, and a 995 before that. Even those are great for shooting models.

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RobG - 06 Feb 2008 23:28 GMT

>> My wife gave me a Nikon D40X for Christmas. I find it is a great
>> camera for modeling. It came with a Nikor 18-55mm lens, which I find a
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> All of the Nikons have outstanding macro modes - I use a Coolpix S-6
> now, and a 995 before that. Even those are great for shooting models.

The beauty of the little Point and Shoot cameras is that due to their small
sized sensors, they have an extremely large depth of field, even without
stopping the lens down. This is one reason why they're so good for scale
model photographs. The downside to this is the sometimes ordinary image
quality, especially when you look at the new 12mp sensors.

RobG
(the Aussie one)

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John McGrail - 06 Feb 2008 15:24 GMT

For an equally good camera, with the same lens and about $200
cheaper ... the Nikon D40 (without the x) is a wonderful camera.

If I get some free time in the next couple of days, I'll post some
macro photos I took with my sony cybershot (point and shoot) & similar
photos from the D40. The difference is astonishing.

An excellent website talking all about the D40 and the D40x and other
cameras ...

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d40.htm

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Stephen Tontoni - 06 Feb 2008 21:16 GMT

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I've been very pleased with my Canon PowerShot A620. Can focus at 1cm
from the subject. Pretty cheap camera that's easy to learn to use too.

By the way... if you're ever working on something and want to find any
flaws, use a digital in macro mode; it'll blow the model up to many
times its original dimensions. Including the flaws.

Heartless devices, they are.

--- Stephen

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Don McIntyre - 06 Feb 2008 22:06 GMT

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> By the way... if you're ever working on something and want to find any
> flaws, use a digital in macro mode; it'll blow the model up to many
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> --- Stephen

Yep, they sure are! I don't know how many seams I've had to redo after
looking at one of those macro shots.

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Good camera for modeling