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I took some pictures of the tank with my new Nikon 4500 yesterday. I've been longing for a DSLR, but even with the new Canon Rebel DSLR which is $999 with a lens, the Nikon 4500 with its $200 rebate was too hard to resist. The Nikon 4500 will also be a lot easier to carry around than a DSLR. The Canon G1 was a nice camera to have over the past few years, but lately, I've been really disappointed with its macro performance. After seeing so many good macro pictures taken with the Nikon 4500, I decided to take the plunge, and last night I started familiarizing myself with its operation. It will take awhile to get used to the Nikon 4500. One particularly annoying thing is that the zoom function on the G1 is in the same location as the on/off function on the 4500. So sometimes in trying to zoom the lens of the 4500, I inadvertently turn off the camera. Being a lighter camera, I also had to figure out how to stabilize the 4500 when I was taking macro shots without a tripod (I misplaced the tripod camera attachment and couldn't find it last night). My solution was to put the camera against my belly and to look down at the viewfinder like it was a wide format camera. I kept the twistable lens section in the same plane as the viewfinder section instead of twisting 90 degrees like normal, and with this method, I was able to take some pretty good macros:
Gallery at: http://www.reeftank.com/150g20030828/index.html
Gallery at: http://www.reeftank.com/150g20030828/index.html
