It will focus down to 10cm, or 1cm in macro mode:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0902/09020303nikonp90.asp
(I wonder if the face recognition is good for macro ).
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I'm never impressed by a camera that focusses down to 1cm. What would impress me is one that focusses at 1m amd gives a high resolution/quality image of 1:1 or more at that distance.
Maybe you missed the interesting spec. for this camera "images are recorded before pushing the shutter button"; think of the possibilities.
Maybe you missed the interesting spec. for this camera "images are recorded before pushing the shutter button"; think of the possibilities.
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Me too. For many subjects I need to get 1:1 at 45cm or so. I have seen one of these close-focus cameras in use and it looks very awkward and very limiting.NikonUser wrote:I'm never impressed by a camera that focusses down to 1cm. What would impress me is one that focusses at 1m amd gives a high resolution/quality image of 1:1 or more at that distance.
NikonUser wrote:Maybe you missed the interesting spec. for this camera "images are recorded before pushing the shutter button"; think of the possibilities.
Yes. I missed that. I must be the "cut" point on the movie! What happens if you change your mind and don't press? The film version would get through a lot of film!
With this technology, digital users will become redundant/extinct before film users.
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Casio has the same thing in their two (rather unique) high-speed P&S cameras.
If you want to see a really nice application of this type of technology check out the BBC "Planet Earth" segment of Great White Sharks catching sea lions. Amazing! (There's a section on the DVD that goes into some details about getting the shots, and the very sophisticated hardware used).
Basically what happens is that when the camera is "armed" it is constantly recording and cycling images to a "buffer". If the "shutter" not released when the buffer is full then the earliest images are "overwritten", cycling continuously. If the shutter is released then the images in the buffer are written to the media along with the "real time" images.
If you want to see a really nice application of this type of technology check out the BBC "Planet Earth" segment of Great White Sharks catching sea lions. Amazing! (There's a section on the DVD that goes into some details about getting the shots, and the very sophisticated hardware used).
Basically what happens is that when the camera is "armed" it is constantly recording and cycling images to a "buffer". If the "shutter" not released when the buffer is full then the earliest images are "overwritten", cycling continuously. If the shutter is released then the images in the buffer are written to the media along with the "real time" images.
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It would be far worse if your wife took better shots than you! After all, chess experts feel no shame in being beaten by a specially-programmed computer.AndrewC wrote:... and my wifes Cybershot has something called "intelligent Scene Technology" which apparently takes a second shot, compares it to yours and keeps the best. I keep it turned off. Let's face it, imagine the humiliation if it actually takes better pictures than I do
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It must be so much easier than the guys who had to run high speed film camerasCharles Krebs wrote: ... Basically what happens is that when the camera is "armed" it is constantly recording and cycling images to a "buffer". If the "shutter" not released when the buffer is full then the earliest images are "overwritten", cycling continuously. If the shutter is released then the images in the buffer are written to the media along with the "real time" images.
... dangerous territory there !Harold Gough wrote:It would be far worse if your wife took better shots than you!AndrewC wrote:... and my wifes Cybershot has something called "intelligent Scene Technology" which apparently takes a second shot, compares it to yours and keeps the best. I keep it turned off. Let's face it, imagine the humiliation if it actually takes better pictures than I do
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