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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Well, it's not really [i]just[/i] a G3. He's using an adapter ring, a reversed add-on lens, etc. It sounds like it must look pretty wierd: big ol' 35mm camera lens, backwards, attached to a compact digital camera. Sorry I didn't get back to this sooner. Unfortunately, the price ranges I checked out were lower ($200-300) and higher ($1000) than your target price range. The cameras that my friends bought were the Canon A70 and the Canon Digital Rebel, respectively. Regarding your friends recommendation of a glass lens, I think most every digital camera in your price range will have a glass lens these days. Plastic lenses have been phased out except in the case of the cheapest cameras. I'd recommend deciding on the form-factor you want, first. Pocket cameras don't offer as many features as the SLR-like cameras, but you might get more photos with a pocket camera if you end up carrying it around more often. If you only plan on taking pictures when you specifically set out to do so, a larger camera would probably be better. One camera that has cought my eye lately is the Minolta DiMage A1. It intro'd at $1200, but the Canon Digital Rebel seems to have shoved the price way down very fast. I see it at about $750 at reputable online dealers. Of course, I recommend the Digital Rebel/300D to anyone considering the really high-end point-n-shoots. A real SLR gives you so much versatility, it's hard to recommend a more expensive camera that locks you into one lens. The SLR is also much much faster than most P&S cameras. And has a much wider ISO range. Etc. Etc. I have a Canon 10D myself, and find shooting with my P&S (a Canon S50) a chore, by comparison. One final tip: [url=http://www.dpreview.com]www.dpreview.com[/url] has reviews of a relatively small selection of cameras, but the reviews include test shots. One of the test shots for P&S cameras is always a macro shot of a watch face. If the cameras you're interested in are reviewed there, you can use those shots to see how good they are at macro work. Loading...
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