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Posted by CliodhnaI want to buy a new camera. I want a digital camera with high mega pixels to take pictures that can be reproduced as prints. I will probably get a 10 mp or above to get enough information to print. Pixels are little packets of information and basically the more of them you have the bigger your picture can be without getting grainy or losing any details. I have read that to get enough information for a giclee print I need at least 50mp or over. Out of my budget I think, and into the realm of professional photographers. Maybe in the future it would be a good investment to get one or two of my pieces cataloged this way but for now 10mp or 12mp should suffice.
I have just joined photo.net
Its a website/forum for photographers. You can ask questions or find the answers to questions, galleries of photos by members, reviews of cameras. The link above is to a question about taking fine art prints. Good information.
If anyone has any ideas let me know!
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Not an expert on cameras, but you might be interested in this little gadget. It allows you to load pictures from your camera directly onto flickr…. great time saver. Just drag them then from flock onto your blog post.
I don’t think you need such high specs for blog photos though, as photos on websites tend to be low resolution. Higher resolution photos take longer to load and slow down your blog. More important is how you frame and construct the photo I guess.
Here’s a tutorial on doing macro photos. Not sure if it would work for you though?
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html
just realised I didn’t put a link to the gadget I mentioned in the previous comment
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139062/article.html
hi, cool site, I had seen that before but I think I need to go and get my cardboard and tissue paper now.
Re camera, I want a lot of info in the photo because I want to use them as high quality prints of my work to sell them. I can always resize and compress them afterwards for use on the blog or etsy. I am still reading about it all. There is a print store in guanajuato here I am going to try to see if they are good enough with the level of camera I am using right now. Its an old camera though, digital, 4mp, hard to get super in focus shots with it.
thanks for info..
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