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Benny · 05-22-2003, 06:06 PM

Are you talking about Digital Film cameras? I've got a sony trv-25. It's small and the zoom is supposedly 120x which is just about good for anything. Never go by a camera's digital zoom. That's a resampling zoom that looks horiffic. Just go by it's optical zoom. Get a minidv and you should be ok. Stick with the bigger companies.

If you're talking still image camera's, there aren't many digital camera's that have a zoom worth a poop. Better off with a film camera for serious zoom. Best ones are from canon or olympus. Fuji's seem to be pretty good too. Don't get anything less than 3 megapxels though. Try going to megapixel.net and rooting though the reviews. I've got an olympus 3030 which is pretty old and big by today's standards, but I took a few pictures at englishtown and I can show you some pictures I took that day when I get home tonight (3x optical zoom). The et's showed up pretty nicely, car included.

MiniDV camera's take pictures too but they are much less high quality than a dedicated picture cam. One last thing. Buy at least a 128 meg memory card and a reader for the computer. Best money you'll ever spend.

<small>[ May 22, 2003, 06:18 PM: Message edited by: Benny ]</small>

05-22-2003, 06:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
Benny Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Bronx, New York Posts: 214	Are you talking about Digital Film cameras? I've got a sony trv-25. It's small and the zoom is supposedly 120x which is just about good for anything. Never go by a camera's digital zoom. That's a resampling zoom that looks horiffic. Just go by it's optical zoom. Get a minidv and you should be ok. Stick with the bigger companies. If you're talking still image camera's, there aren't many digital camera's that have a zoom worth a poop. Better off with a film camera for serious zoom. Best ones are from canon or olympus. Fuji's seem to be pretty good too. Don't get anything less than 3 megapxels though. Try going to megapixel.net and rooting though the reviews. I've got an olympus 3030 which is pretty old and big by today's standards, but I took a few pictures at englishtown and I can show you some pictures I took that day when I get home tonight (3x optical zoom). The et's showed up pretty nicely, car included. MiniDV camera's take pictures too but they are much less high quality than a dedicated picture cam. One last thing. Buy at least a 128 meg memory card and a reader for the computer. Best money you'll ever spend. <small>[ May 22, 2003, 06:18 PM: Message edited by: Benny ]</small> __________________ PKer "You're going to need 2 bottles of NAWZZZ the big ones. Just don't hit the button too many times or your "teh flourpan" will fall off, and you'll blow the welds on the intake."