Need camera to photograph white boards and electronic circuits

"raymond" wrote in message
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I need to procure a digital camera to use for our work, the main
subjects will be white boards photographed after technical meetings
and a suite of electronics that we are developing. We essentially
want to keep a photo journal (web-based). The downside of our
attempts with low-end digital cameras has been the reflection from the
flash; I need to use the flash to keep the shutterspeed minimal for a
steady image

With sufficient lighting for the people at your meeetings to see the
white boards you shouldn't need to use flash. Nor should you need to
use such a slow shutter speed that a tripod is an absolute necessity.
As the white boards can be placed at any angle you need simply
lean against a wall with the board ideally facing a window while
taking the photographs. Although learning the correct posture (for you)
to take shake free photographs at relatively slow speeds is a useful skill
to develop. In addition most digital cameras incorporate shake reduction
in any case.

If you're only photographing for the web, then some relatively inexpensive
bridge cameras (Lumix etc) when used with a tabletop tripod can produce quite
impressive macro and close-up shots - however defined . Of electronic
components or anything else. This is simply an unintended consequence of
the relative focal length and sensor size, or something like that. The
only real trick is getting the lighting right.


michael adams

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d my only solution thus far has been to angle the
camera shots.

It seems like this issue is solved in some high end (Leica) cameras
which have a "bounce flash", it's also solved by unweildy external
flash units, neither seems to me the right purchase. Can you
recommend a better solution, in a price range that will not aggravate
company financial folks?