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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Hello,
I am just wondering what the best camera would be under $125 that is just point and shoot. I am not very good with settings on cameras so "User Friendly" one would be best.
Thanks
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Rest in Peace
United States
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We really would need to know what you are considering a (digital?) camera for ... people photography? Scenics? A point-and-shoot would not be suitable for coin or any close-up photography.
Having said that ... any cheap camera would not be much different than the next, but I'd stay with the better-known brands: Pentax, Sony, Canon, Olympus, Nikon, Panasonic, Fuji, Samsung, etc.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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I am interested in a camera that would be good for just everyday pictures, but also one can take high quality coin pictures.
Preferably a digital.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If you can find a Canon SD790IS, I got mine for around $125. Here's a picture I took with it:  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Wow! Great looking pictures! Was that just a point and shoot? Or did you change some setting?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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If you can find a Canon SD790IS, I got mine for around $125. I just checked on Kijiji (Same as Craigslist) and there are two of these listed for $100ea. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with DVcollector, I took his great advice and bought the Canon SD780IS which is just basically a newer upgrade to the SD790, and if you click the link in my signature you can see examples of photos I took with the SD780. No special adjustments, just macro mode and a little bit of cropping in Photoscape.  You can get one on ebay for around the $100 range if I remember correctly. Edited by wheatguy
11/12/2010 11:21 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Thats wheatguy, I will check out that link in your signature.
I have been hearing the word "Macro" used a lot on the photography forum. What does it mean?
Edit: wheatguy, How do you get the solid black backgrounds in your scans?
Edited by Canadian-Banknotes
11/12/2010 11:39 pm
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Rest in Peace
United States
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"Macro" translates roughly to "larger than life." A macro lens will allow you to photograph images and then display them at larger than the original size.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A macro lens will allow you to photograph images and then display them at larger than the original size. I agree, it's a setting on cameras that will allow you to focus close to the coin. Quote:
wheatguy, How do you get the solid black backgrounds in your scans? After I take the photos, I upload them to my computer and roundly crop the coin out of the picture in Photoscape, and I have the background color set to black. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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this is the camera I use and as I have said many times before I paid like 25.00 for mine a few years ago and it does a great job with pictures of coins and other numismatics http://cgi.ebay.com/JVC-3-3-Mega-Pi...em3a57cc53e4 Even if the battery doesn't hold a charge you can hook the power cable to the charger and still use the camera. Here is one I took with this same camera  it is great for closeups also  It is super easy to use and its macro setting is awesome considering I hardly ever use a tripod and my images are never blurry. it is only 3.3 MP so it may not work all that great out in the world but for taking pictures of coins this camera has done everything I need it to do and them some. I bought a 8MP Sony and I still use this one every time because the Sony can't touch this one when it comes to getting a close shot of a particular area of the coin |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Black ( any color)background on either photos or scans
Camera: put the coin on a black (or?) background
Scanner: scotch tape a black sheet of paper on the lid of your scanner....
simple....
that will be 3 bucks plus tax....( do not take FeePal)lolololo
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Valued Member
United States
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Valued Member
United States
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I bought a Kodak C183 easy shre 14 mp camera at Walmarts on black Friday for $60.00 that does a very good job for all kinds of pics. has multiple settings and a good macro function. Or you can leave it on the default setting for real easy point and shoot photography
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have a Canon SD780IS as well and am very happy with it for the "real world" and coins.
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Moderator
 United States
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I use an Olympus 500UZ and have been very happy with it. It's a few years old, but still does the job with macro and super macro, little more than your budget though.
The Canon mentioned above would be a great choice.
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Posted 11/12/2010 6:58 pm
