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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1790060, member: 4373&quot;]Thought I might as well start a thread about cameras that you use to capture awesome coin photos. I&#039;ve been using this camera for probably a couple of years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do own a DSLR camera but I am not a big fan of it due to it&#039;s weight plus it takes a fair bit of effort to set it up. You&#039;ll also need dedicated lens to take close up photos. At the same time, I&#039;ll like to show that you don&#039;t need an expensive camera to take good photos. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been using a few different cameras and the most recent is Pentax Optio W90. The one before is Ricoh. Don&#039;t really quite remember what I had before that - probably a Panasonic lumix which I struggled to take decent macro photo. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been clocking up to close to 4000 photos on the Pentax camera and I&#039;ve got good reason to like it. It&#039;s a 12.1 mp camera and it&#039;s got a super macro which focuses it down to 1cm. I also like how the lens is integrated with the camera - if you live in a dusty enviroment, it can cause a bit of a grief. I had a camera where the lens was jammed due to dust and it was a write off. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is dust proof and shock proof but that doesn&#039;t mean that you go and bash it up... water proof as well but I haven&#039;t tried it out yet. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also like the read / write time - it&#039;s fast enough for what I do and this is taking multiples of photos before I make up my mind. </p><p><br /></p><p>You may want to read this review here: <a href="http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/OW90/OW90A.HTM" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/OW90/OW90A.HTM" rel="nofollow">http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/OW90/OW90A.HTM</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I find it hard to beat the price of around 300 dollars when it was first out. It was a present from my dad as he knows that I take a lot of photos. Appearently you can get it around 150 dollars or a lot less if you are willing to go second hand. </p><p><br /></p><p>What camera do you use?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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