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[madbaker]

Can anyone recommend some decent makes and models of digital cameras? The wife would like one to record her art show.
(And I wouldn't mind having one so I can do important things, like put up new pictures of Galen.)

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[albionwood.livejournal.com]

The lens is very important. Not only the optical quality, though that is crucial, but also how close it will focus, zoom capability, etc.

One of the principal purposes of my camera is museum photos, where you have to shoot by existing light (frequently dim) and close-focusing is vital, but really close (macro) isn't. My Olympus 2100UZ does a great job at that. A friend of mine is a jeweler, and uses his camera mainly for closeups of his work; my Olympus is very poor at that, whereas his Nikon excels (focuses down to 3/4" from the lens). For travel photography, the 10x zoom lens on my UZ is unbeatable.