What digital camera is best for taking macro shots of coins and can be controlled remotely?

Posted by admin on October 25, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

I saw an ad a while back where you could become a tester for Nikon cameras by taking pictures and sending result to Nikon and the tester gets to keep the camera. Does anyone know how to become one?
Are you an established photographer? Do you have a portfolio that shows the ability you have? What are your qualifications? Companies generally don’t just “give away” expensive products because someone says they’ll test them. An offer such as the one you mention is limited to a handful of cameras and the qualifying criteria (as well as the legal obligations one has to agree to in order to be considered) are quite stringent.
If you’re truly interested in becoming a tester, you should write to the company expressing that interest. Be prepared to answer a battery of questions if they even consider your request.
By the way, if you get picked, you will need to use it more than a few “snapshots” around the neighborhood, you know.
I think it’s similar to beta testing a program. Play with it all day long and record every button you press until it crashes. Not even worth the time any more.
Some of the photography magazines test cameras, and then report on them. They have the equipment to do very thorough testing. I’m sure you don’t have that kind of equipment to do that kind of testing.
When I look at digital cameras online, how do I know if the camera can zoom in while its taking a video?
Is it “Optical Zoom”?
The camera that I have right now can not zoom while I am taking a video, even though it can zoom in on pictures.
Also, none of the cameras I’m looking at seem to have the dimensions or quality of their video. How do I know if the video quality will be good?
I am looking for a video camera to film skating. I am willing to spend up to $1,200. I have been looking at the Canon gl1, if you have this camera, or know someone who does, please tell me how well it does. I already have a fish-eye lens. Please, and thank you!
In my personal opinion, there is no perfect camcorder for any type of thing you are going to film. Since you are going to be skating, you need a camcorder that has a good Frames Per second speed as well as good color. I quickly looked at the GL1 and it looks pretty good but there is a new GL2 which seems to be better. Since you are going over 1000 any camcorder will be good and Canon is usually good.
I have no idea what you are going to be using it for, but It is always good to go with HD since you are going to be spending that much. Before you read this paragraph note that HD takes a lot of space. I mean gigs for a few minutes of video, but its the best quality. If you are just doing home videos (Unless you have an HDTV) then you don’t really need to bother with HD. If you are into this, I would recommend the Canon SF10 (amazing color and it also does standard definition as well)