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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 434155, member: 4552&quot;]Stainless, here is few suggestions. First of all go to seveal places that carry cameras and check them all out. Taking your time with any purchase is always worth the time. Now here are some things to consider:</p><p>1. Make sure the camera you choose has a Macro setting</p><p>2. Make sure the camera has a treaded hole on the bottom for a tripod</p><p>3. Make sure the camera uses a removable card. This means something called a SD, XD, Compact Flash, etc. SD is becoming the most common.</p><p>4. Hopefully if the camera comes with such a card it is at least 1 Gig capacity</p><p>5. This camera should have at least 3 megapixel capacity. Excessive megapixels become a thing you&#039;ll never use such as cameras with 12, 15 or more.</p><p>6. Built in flashes are very helpful but usually not very powerful</p><p>7. A minimum of 3X telephoto is always usefull when you are in a place and to far from what your looking at. </p><p>8. A carrying strap is usefull but dangerous. They break, cameras may fly around if carrying by them, they get caught on things. </p><p>9. What is known as a hot shoe for additional flashes on a camera comes in handy.</p><p>10. Cameras with changable lenses are usually to complicated and heavy.</p><p>11. Looking at cameras on line is difficult to see what they are in real life</p><p>12. Ask as many people as you know what they like about their cameras</p><p>13. Check if the camera has a place to plug in a cable for extensions to computers and/or TV sets. </p><p>14. If your computer does not have a camera card slot, check at any computer supply place for a card reader that you plug into a USB port. Many are usable for at least 4 to 5 different types of camera cards and cost less than $20 in most places. If you know computers there are ones that can be inserted into the computer like a disc drive. I just bought one for $17. </p><p>15. The main thing is your camera will be used for more than coins so make sure your happy with the one you buy</p><p>I&#039;ve got 5 digital cameras now and have only taken about 5 pictures of coins. But I have taken probably hundreds of thousands of photos of other things. Recently took over 10,000 photos of a constuction project.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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