Best Digital Camera

[Tony Thomas]

>Stan and others:

>Almost impossible to recommend a digital camera - there are so many.
>There is an excellent web page that gives an incredible amount of info on 
>digital cameras and is great for comparing the various models
>
>http://www.dpreview.com
>
>I use a Nikon 5700 and the quality of the images can be seen at:
>
>http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zEEB/butterflies/techniques.html
>
>scroll down to techniques and take a look at #5 and #3
>
>A less expensive alternative that gives equally good, perhaps even better, 
>images is the Nikon 4500. The 5700 has an 8x zoom, the 4500 a 4x zoom. 
>Both cameras are capable of a resolution down to the level of butterfly 
>wing scales.
>
>Tony


 
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