I can't believe I missed that this was present: my camera does have a macro mode, and it's pretty darned good, for a cheap camera. Combined with manual exposure control, it's possible to get really quite decent closeups of things even using the flash. I've got four pictures below the fold, as examples.

I believe I'm going to have to read the manual to find out what other things this can do that I wasn't aware of. (I know it can take 640*480 video.)

UPDATE: Two more added.

UPDATE: This camera cost me $130, about. Kodak or Polaroid film cameras from 10-15 years ago, were there any in this price range which had remotely this kind of feature set and image fidelity? Not even close! It's no wonder digital cameras have long since killed off film for consumer use -- and for most other photography, too. Film is a niche now, and it's a niche that's continuing to shrink.

UPDATE: They did considerably improve the lenses in the newer version. In my L-18 the macro mode is limited to a range of 6 inches. In the L-19 it's 2 inches.

Here's Andy Jackson.

And here's a closeup of his eyes. Those are both from the same shot. For the first one, I reduced the whole thing to 800*600; for the second I extracted an 800*600 section out of the middle.

Here's Hakufu.

And here's her eye. Again, these are both from the same shot.

UPDATE: Here's a couple more, of Andy's friends George and Franky.

Those are considerably reduced. The quarter was actually about 1700 pixels across.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Daily Life at 07:47 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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