I am seriously thinking about buying a Sony DCC-F707 and would like to know if it had macro on it. I did read the spec's on it and didn't find that in it. Feel free to speak if you have an opinion on the camera. Thanks Sonja
Originally posted by sjgleah: How large is the optical zoom on the Sony F707? Do you miss having a large optical zoom?
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Originally posted by jmsetzler: [i]Originally posted by Sonifo: [i]I think I am going to own a new camera. Thank you jmsetzler
I think you will be happy with the F707 for sure... [/i]
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The optical zoom is 5x and the digital is 10x. I turned the digital off. I missed it initially cause my mavica FD-95 had 10x optical and 20x digital. The digital zoom degrades the image quality too much to suit me but the added resolution of the F707 makes up for the zoom. I can crop a great image out of whatever i take... :)
I'm a little late but I thought I would chime in. I think F707 has very good macro capabilities. I just purchased a 1.8x teleconverter for it so now it has a very good zoom range. The teleconverter is somewhat limited by having to use an f-stop between f5.6 and f8 but I can live with that. I am pretty happy with it so far and I will give more details including pictures later on.
Is price an option? The DSC-S85 went way down in price to 599.99 at the stores and even lower online. This is a 4.3 mp camera and has suited me well. I have seen its limitations but it’s an excellent beginner and intermediate camera. I would certainly recommend it for the price and the excellent quality of the lens
Originally posted by ezns: Is price an option? The DSC-S85 went way down in price to 599.99 at the stores and even lower online. This is a 4.3 mp camera and has suited me well. I have seen its limitations but it’s an excellent beginner and intermediate camera. I would certainly recommend it for the price and the excellent quality of the lens
Since the F707 has a nice little meter that shows you when you are in the digital zoom range, I leave it on. By leaving it on I can do the cropping first, in camera, before any jpeg compression is added. I try to be very careful with it and I only crop tightly, digitally, if I am certain I would, otherwise, do that in Photoshop later on. But I will usually take a wider, non digitally cropped image as well. It's not a big difference but when I am taking a ton of photos any time saver is welcomed.
