Hi. I make jewelry and sell it online. I have to have a nice, clean, close-up. I'm not looking for zoom as much as macro. Would this camera work? THX!
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Yes, the T3 would work. However, you will also need the kit lens, an 18 - 55 mm, as well as a macro lens. I recently purchased the following from Amazon: Wide Angle/Macro Lens FOR THE CANON DIGITAL REBEL T3I T2I 550D.THIS LENS ATTACH DIRECTLY TO THE FOLLOWING CANON LENSES 18-55mm, 75-300mm, 50mm 1.4 , 55-200mm. It works great and I believe it is currently on sale.
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this camera would be fine, but what you'll really need is a macro lens. this is just the body of the camera, so you'll need the regular kit lens and then a macro piece (i found a really cheap one once that doubled as a wide angle lens for about $12). hope that helps!
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The camera will work fine, but you need to "focus" on an applicable lens, tripod, "soft" flash system, etc. to give you the resolution, clarity, and color rendering you want. You probably want something like a 50mm or 60mm macro lens or a 15-70mm zoom macro lens if they make them. As for the camera, 12.2 MP is more than enough resolution; you'll have to reduce that significantly anyway to post to a website. Just "thinking out loud", but hopefully it can help.
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Hello Michael, The macro function on this camera is a nice feature. I have used this on floral pics. And other christmas decorations. I find you may like it for the price.
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I honestly havn't taken jewelry pictures, but i have taken many macro shots and i am really impressed with the macro function. Flowers, insects, etc. have been excellent in my opinion. Never found too much light a problem. Hope this helps a little.
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I would say yes, and I can get sharp images at 300mm but usually need to prop it on something to stop it down for best results. The macro is great, and for the money I think you can't go wrong.
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Well, I think it's great. For a lot of my macro/close-up shots, I use this camera instead of my mirrorless cameras. It'll let you get in darned close. Bill
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This takes a long time to focus, particularly on macro. While trying to get a shot of the super moon, I missed all of them, indoors using zoom is also slow. Without any zoom, much better. I think the zoom is the real culprit. Still with 16 MP per shot you can crop a photo and still have a sweet pix. I tend to do a lot of cropping in PSP. However, on a recent visit with my grandson, I missed nearly all the good shots as it wouldn't focus, some times while shooting a macro shot for example of a ring I made, it can take 20 tries to get a good shot, or twenty tries just to get it to focus, once focused it takes awesome pix. But those missed ones are a bummer. I tried several other cameras with 20x zooms, that didn't work at all in low light, this may not have a mega zoom, but 12x beats those longer zooms all over the place. In outdoor lighting on a cloudy day it does AWESOME. Hope this helps, I brought home a Canon, other Nikons, a Panasonic Lumix, Sony and Samsung they all were worse than this one. So with limited funds this is what I kept. My brother recently bought a Sony that was another $150.00 more dollars, and he got awesome pix of the super moon. If I had the money I'd shell it out for a more expensive camera, my sister just bought the next up from this with a 20x zoom, we both took pictures of the same subjects, mine were much better than hers. She uses a tripod a lot, I Don't want to use a tripod. It's supposed to be point and shoot. More zoom is bot necessarily better. Just my opinions.
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I'd like to know the same kind of thing: how close/far away does this or a more appropriate model have to be to fill as small as 12x18" up to a maximum 18"x27" area from a 6000px X 9000px digital image? I'd like to keep the zoom/macro to optimum sharpness setting. TIA, GEB
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Hi Jeff, Is a good feature, but is not a proffesional camera, the macro function is as good as the software of the camera. I use it diving, snorkeling and in caverns and works perfectly. I try it with a penny and I can see all the details of the penny.
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I am looking for the same info.. if you check out this camera on walmarts site there is an actual video on there! Helped me to decide that this is the camera that I am looking for. Also, I believe the macro is as close as 1 cm ! I need a macro to photograph my beadwork.
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Not sure one can say what is "best", but this is an excellent lens for a project like that. Remember that with a macro lens you will have a narrow depth-of-field, so for selling jewelry you will want a narrow aperture and photograph from a little distance to ensure clarity across the entire piece. NOTE: You don't need a macro lens for this project unless you are trying to get very close (closer than a 1:1 ratio), any good quality lens will work. Good luck.
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Well, I don't use a light ring, but LIGHT is pretty important unless you're in the sunlight or bright daylight. I did get a light ring but it was far too bright for macros. So if you could find a nice gentle light-i'd go for it. Otherwise, plan on inventing some other light source. Unless, as I said, you're in daylight. The lens doesn't shadow the subject the way the macro built into the camera does. You can get far enough away that you won't leave a shadow. Hope that helps.
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Well, I think it's great. For a lot of my macro/close-up shots, I use this camera instead of my mirrorless cameras. It'll let you get in darned close.Bill
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It has both macro and super macro settings, and I think it works great, especially for this price range. Flowers? No problem. Bugs? Might be more of a problem, unless you can get them to pose for you! I often take close-up photos of toy cars, and most of the time it shows more detail in the photo than I ever see when I examine them, even with my glasses on!
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yeah, the macro mode lets you take close up images. Got the camera a few days ago and it too pretty nice pics of my fav. ring! The ring is focused, but background will be blurry
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While it doesn't have a macro mode, it does focus well up-close to objects. Overall, I'm pleased with the all-around performance of this camera, especially considering its price, size and weight. I carry it clipped onto my belt using a flip-phone case (regular camera cases are too big for this), it has ultimate portability.
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Shots should be decent but not stellar. I never thought of this camera as macro and I wouldn't use the 24-42mm-zoom lens for macro shots. The lean is weak. The camera is fine though and if you find a better lens it should work.
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It does, but it doesn't really do anything "macro"....... if you get the camera closer than 2 feet away from your subject, it will not focus at all