Digital Camera

[MadChild]

id go with a sony that has 5.0 mega pixels. sony is a great company and the resolution with 5.0 mega pixels is awesome.

[SGTKennedy]

I love my Digital Elph. I will recommend the Canon to everyone. I took mine to Iraq, dropped it, and generally abused it for over a year, and it still takes fairly decent pictures.

[MarkM]

As I said when I got the time...a couple of shots I did for an online store.



Incidently taken with a Fuji FinePics S602Zoom at High setting but not the finest setting.
I know they are a little large but if I sized them to fit with a miniumum of scrolling then they would look a whole lot sharper so this is a fairer way of showing the pics

See what I mean when you shrink pics down.....

[Bluestrike_2]

eh, I meant what kind of lighting was used, not if there was any used.

Another thing, look into what types of file formats the cameras support. Nikon uses .NEF as the camera RAW file. Most manufacturers have proprietary formats for Raw. They all have JPEG, though.

[Bluestrike_2]

Mark, any lighting used? ISO equivalent? Very nice shots. Although I think that the texture coming out on the larger shot makes the entire image more appealing than it's scaled down counterpart. Takes the drop and gives it the feeling of royalty, or something similair along those lines.

[Muzikman]

I am actually shocked at the noise. I to would like to know what ISO setting.

I only shoot in RAW if I know I am going to be doing something special. The quality difference is not that great between RAW and high res JPG. I will post some links to full sized images from my 10D.


EDIT:
Here are the the three pics I posted above from the 10D in full resolution.

http://jbeamphotos.com/gallery/misc2

[MarkM]

To be honest I have no idea what speed they were taken at...I could re-read the manual and see what I did. I took those pics over 2 years ago so I was still getting to grips with the camera...to be honest I still am, I only recently discovered that it had two close up settings There was lighting used, an over head halogen light and the built in flash unit, no reflector umbrellas either so the result was pretty good and the pics were taken without a tripod and on auto exposure. My main reason for the camera was I have a point and shoot Fuji (I am not brand loyal so that is just a coincidence) but this unit was only a 2.1 mega pixels, though when I got it only Pro cameras had 3 millon pixels so I was quite a way up the food chain when I got it and only when I bought the newer Fuji (3.1 megal pixels multiplied to 6 million, something to do with how Fuji converts the image and the pixel shape they use) did I find that what I paid for the little Fuji was being over taken by other makes. Also I found the zoom wasn't good enough for how I was using the camera...I was taking pics of paintball but having to crop way too much so I needed a camera that had larger file sizes so I would not lose so much information and I could get closer to the action.
Somewhere I have pics I took with a regular 35mm some with the speed pushed to crazy numbers to get grain but then that was the effect I was after, I will have to have a search and see where they are and then scan them up.

[Muzikman]

I just looked at the EXIF data of the drop forward photo. There are a few things that would have made it come out better (if the camera allows you to change some things)

ISO: 400 (That should be 100 or less)

f-stop: f/8 (smaller f-stop would give you better depth-of-field. I would have tried to shoot it at about 3.5)

Shutter: 1/80 (You said it was hand held, that is way to slow for being hand held. lowering the f-stop would increase the shutter speed too, which I think would help with any camera shake there might have been.)

EDIT:
As stated before. These pictures are perfect example of why MP is not important. Even a 2mp camera should produce a sharp image at full res. The image will just not be as large or with as much detail...but it should be sharp (IE. no halo's around pixels).

[MarkM]

Well it is a case of RTFM ! well for me that is I know I can change the speed but that is in the modes it isn't as simple as a normal SLR, same thing with the F stop, but since I do very little still work I won't be losing too much sleep, that may change but right now I am too lazy and the basic idea of what I wanted was enough for me with the model I bought. I know I can get better results maybe when I have some spare time I will have to do some reading.