MACRO SHOTS QUESTION

To make life more confusing, Nikon likes to call Macro Micro.

Kevin


Prometheus wrote:
In article 1Ogog.8679$Wl.3369@trnddc01, Talal Itani
writes

Why is it, that a Digital Point and Shoot can take Macro Shots, yet a
Digital SLR requires a Macro Lens in order to take Macro Shots?

The P&S do not take true macro (life size) they take quarter or less at
very short distance (3cm) but are described as macro to sell to the
ignorant who think macro simply means 'very close'. The kit lens on the
350D offers quarter size at 28cm, but because it is a DSLR which is
traditionally used by people who have got a clue and comes from a
different diversion of the camera manufacture is not described as
'macro'.

A fiend bought a Nikon Coolpix 8800 because it had a 'macro' setting
that would let it focus to 3cm, he found that it was ultra wide-angle
(and ultra distorted) and gave less magnification than my 350D with the
kit lens at 28cm.

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Ian G8ILZ