Coolpix 2500: Update

[ronnie gauthier]

Check the flash modes there may be a reduction flash. That is where
there are two close flashes together.

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:16:23 -0500 - Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com>
wrote the following
Re: Coolpix 2500: Update

>Just an update on this camera.
>
>I have been using it for about a week. It takes excellent photos,
>faraway and close up, and plays very nicely with linux. Red eye is
>still a nuisance, however. I must be doing something wrong there. So,
>if anyone is looking for a moderately priced digital camera ($280),
>this is an excellent choice.
>
>This digital stuff really opens up new ways of doing things. For
>example, I take photos in a medical laboratory. We have always had a
>dedicated photo stand (actually two), with very expensive lights and a
>table with glass plate and backlight. Lots of expense, a nuisance to
>keep clean, and wasted laboratory space. A dirty background was always
>a problem.
>
>Now, with digital, we can take a picture of a specimen on a bloody
>cutting board, use a flash, and hold the camera in our hands if we
>want. The digital camera has a quicker shutter speed, what with the
>bright flash.  Overhead ceiling lights, once a problem, are now not a
>problem. With gimp it is quick and simple to replace that bloody
>cutting board in the background with a nice jet black background so
>your specimen just hangs there in space, beautiful. Diverticulosis
>never looked this good before.
>
>So, if you have hesitated about going digital, I think the technology
>has arrived.
>
>Joel
>
>
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