The best camera on the market right now is the Nikon D700 and the models above that. You will barely need to use a tripod again the low light performance is outstanding.
You can do great camera comparisons here...
http://www.dxomark.com/index.php
Yani said:The best camera on the market right now is the Nikon D700 and the models above that. You will barely need to use a tripod again the low light performance is outstanding.
Yep.
Also check www.kenrockwell.com for everything Nikon. I have a D50 and I love it. If you care, add a 50mm 1.8f lens, but the kit lenses at 18-55 are great.
Hi Yani,
I used to play around with long exposures with torches back in the 80's when shooting film. I will have to buy a decent torch as I only have a couple of those small $5 torches at the moment and they hardly light anything up. It will be a whole new learning game again as I can't remember what settings I used and how long I lit any given area for way back then. I might start off small with some indoor subjects.
I would love to see a couple of your torch images,
Best regards,Brian.
Set me an assignment, and not 'your desk' GAWD I'd have to clean up. Most of the stuff I have here is boring muck done for clients. A $5 touch is perfect. LED ones aren't always great they can have a bit of color shift, mine is white in the centre and a bit green to the edges.
http://www.gizmag.com/liquid-pistons-for-mobile-phone-cameras/17559/
Liquid lenses...
Researchers at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute have developed "liquid pistons" that could be suited to a variety of applications. Using electromagnets the liquid pistons, which are highly tunable, scalable and have no solid moving parts, can function as pumps for lab-on-a-chip systems or could be used for adaptive lenses in future mobile phone cameras and implantable lenses.
several years back an Australian inventor came out with a lens that had virtually infinite depth of field. There was a special on this on TV, but I missed it. In the commercial advertising the show they showed a macro image taken ...... shot between the legs of a spider and the spider was in sharp focus, as was everything else in the room you could see between the spider's legs.
I never heard anything more after that. Did you see the show and do you know anything about this?
Yes I remember that. I think that was pre web so no doubt hard to find. It might have been that it used multiple small apertures. I have some vague memory of talk about it being like a fly's eye.
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=004Hcm
There is a discussion on the above but it is pretty vague.