Great idea. I'll pass it along. Thanks, Herschel. Shyrell --------------------------------- Melara Photography Studios Jonesville, North Carolina *Preserving Precious Memories* http://melarastudios.tripod.com --------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Herschel Mair" <herschelmair@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: From my arts/crafts group > Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:56:29 -0700 (PDT) > > > The term 10X optical zoom means it has a real 10X zoom as opposed to a > "Digital" zoom. > > The optical zoom is a real zoom lens. The digital zoom is merely a > cropping of the image and then the camera fills in a bunch of pixels to > make up for the ones it cropped out. > > The quality of digital zooms is awful. > > A 10X optical zoom may or may not have a macro facility and the macro > facility (If it has one) may or may not be able to focu close enough for > jewellery. > Take the jewellery in to the camera store and test the cameras to > find one that focusses close enough for what you want. (The joys of > digital) > > Herschel > > > Herschel Mair > Head of the Department of Photography, > Higher College of Technology > Muscat > Sultanate of Oman > Adobe Certified instructor > > + (986) 99899 673 > > www.herschelmair.com > -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10
