08-08-2010, 02:42 PM
Kevin ...
I don't know what kind of camera your "point-n-shoot" camera is, but the one I use is one that, having been a 35mm SLR film guy since '71 (when I took my first film class in art school,) works pretty well once you get to know what it does. I had never done anything but "point and shoot" with this Canon Power Shot A410 that my daughter gave me after she got a DSLR (for a photography course in Jr. college) She felt sorry for Dad after his house was burglarized four times and the last time they found the camera bag with all the lenses, his two Pentaxes, the strobe and the Polaroid Land Camera.
But when I started posting photos for "Building a Small Fleet of Very Small Cabooses", I bit the bullet and actually read the little manual that came with the little Canon. It was an eye opener! I will never bad mouth a little "point-n-shoot" digital camera again. And when the current Challenge has run its course, I'll have to return to the "Cute Little Crummies" and finish those little bad boys up!
In the meantime, Kev, try to find the "close-up" setting or the "macro" setting on your "point-n-shoot" and see if either of those will be a help! Of course, you could always read the book. :geek:
I don't know what kind of camera your "point-n-shoot" camera is, but the one I use is one that, having been a 35mm SLR film guy since '71 (when I took my first film class in art school,) works pretty well once you get to know what it does. I had never done anything but "point and shoot" with this Canon Power Shot A410 that my daughter gave me after she got a DSLR (for a photography course in Jr. college) She felt sorry for Dad after his house was burglarized four times and the last time they found the camera bag with all the lenses, his two Pentaxes, the strobe and the Polaroid Land Camera.
But when I started posting photos for "Building a Small Fleet of Very Small Cabooses", I bit the bullet and actually read the little manual that came with the little Canon. It was an eye opener! I will never bad mouth a little "point-n-shoot" digital camera again. And when the current Challenge has run its course, I'll have to return to the "Cute Little Crummies" and finish those little bad boys up!
In the meantime, Kev, try to find the "close-up" setting or the "macro" setting on your "point-n-shoot" and see if either of those will be a help! Of course, you could always read the book. :geek:
EDIT: Yep, once again I found a misspelled word and my OCD wouldn't let me leave it there, annoying me forever!
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln