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Yeah, still haven't got my camera.... Hoping to get some pics of my babies up for you guys soon!
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-|.... -Kris ....|-

..........You know you're sick..........
....................When your Leo collection..........
.............................Is worth more than your car..........

...... Kris' Crosses will be Kings .....

....So Far........1 Tang Female, 2 Beautiful Cross Males, 2 Cross Females.....

R.I.P. Mike

I use a sony digital camcorder that takes still pics too. It works great for closups b/c it can focus in on something only 1cm away from the lense and then zoom in a little. So I can take a clear picture of just a leopard gecko's eye. But it is a $1500 camera so not practical unless you want a nice camcorder too.

I have heard and seen great things from the Nikon coolpix series.
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~Andrea

2.8.1 Leopard geckos
0.0.1 Bearded dragon
0.0.2 Viper geckos
0.1.0 Rescued anole
2 dogs
hamsters

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You'll rarely ever see a 'megapixel' photo posted online, especially not on a kingsnake forum. Most of these photos are 640x480 or 800x600 pixels. What you should be concerned with is the quality of the lenses and macro capabilities of the camera. Andrea's right that the Nikon's have awesome macro and I believe some of the Olympus, Fuji and Sonys do as well (just don't buy one that takes Floppy disks; too many to carry around and too bulky of a camera, IMO). Optical zoom is important too(ignore digital zoom or 'combined' zoom such as 2x Optical 3x Digital=6x Zoom; it's all bogus), but with a good macro and proper lighting, you can get within 1" or so from the subject. That is if you can safely get that close to what you're photographing, ie. hot herps wouldn't be good that close. Try to get at least 3x optical zoom; shouldn't be too hard to find.

If you will be printing up pictures, that's when you need to worry about how many megapixels you have. I believe the recommended minimum for 4x6 prints is 2mp, and goes up from there.
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Rob Jenkins
herpcam.com

This is one of the best resources for digital camera info I've found on the Internet - Digital Photo Review. Check out thier forums for info on just about anything you can think of on just about every camera you could hope to buy.
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Rob Jenkins
herpcam.com

I use a Canon Powershot A70 3mp camera. It's great, especially for only $300.

>>Yeah, still haven't got my camera.... Hoping to get some pics of my babies up for you guys soon!
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>>-|.... -Kris ....|-
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>>..........You know you're sick..........
>>....................When your Leo collection..........
>>.............................Is worth more than your car..........
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>>...... Kris' Crosses will be Kings .....
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>>......And Here The Hatchlings Come......
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>>....So Far........1 Tang Female, 2 Beautiful Cross Males, 2 Cross Females.....
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>>R.I.P. Mike
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*Erin*

Here's the camera I used to take the following two pictures. I used an Olympus D-40. It's 4 megapixels, has a 2.8x optical zoom, can record quicktime video with sound, and can focus in macro mode at only 3.9 inches away. I got this camera refurbished and it's just like new, there's no problems at all with it. I paid only $260 for it and the reatil value at olympus.com is $599.

Here's the pics

Leopard Frog

Dragonfly

The dragonfly picture was taken a few feet away using the optical zoom and a high resolution. The megapixels do count if you cant get close to your subject so you can take a pic at a high res and then crop it.
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The Hypo Gecko

The higher resolution, the better you'll be able to crop and zoom in on your subjects.
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Rob Jenkins
herpcam.com