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I was wondering if anyone had any reccomendations on a digital camera for photographing laser beams, which wasn't too expensive. The one I have now is good at taking shots with the beam, but once the beam is being pointed towards the camera, everything goes terribly wrong. My camera phone on my mobile isn't too bad, but I have no leads to hook it up to the PC. Any input is apreciated...

 

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I was wondering if anyone had any reccomendations on a digital camera for photographing laser beams, which wasn't too expensive. The one I have now is good at taking shots with the beam, but once the beam is being pointed towards the camera, everything goes terribly wrong. My camera phone on my mobile isn't too bad, but I have no leads to hook it up to the PC. Any input is apreciated...

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This is just to clarify what you've said. I'm not sure how you meant it.

You cannot point the beam AT the camera. You can only point it CLOSE TO the camera. if the beam passes through the aperture stuff gets burned and overpowered.

I have a little Canon Powershot A80. It is more capable that I know how to make it. I get pretty good beam shots now with it.

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Yeah, if I point the beam close (not at) towards the camera, it doesn't come out very good.  If I point the camera with the beam, in the same direction it's going, they come out okay.  My mobile on the other hand captures brilliant beam shots when the laser is aimed towards it...

 

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I'll most likely be selling off my Cannon SI 1S soon, as I plan on going to a more advanced DSLR - based upon recommendations, of course

 

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I'll most likely be selling off my Cannon SI 1S soon, as I plan on going to a more advanced DSLR - based upon recommendations, of course

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I'd hang on to the compact for macro shots nothing beats them.

 

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I have a Canon SD550 that works great for most of my laser photography, the only problem is that it doesn't pick up violet as much as my eyes see it. Now my eyes are pretty screwy and I think my eyes are a little more sensitive to violet than most people's so it could be just me, but other than that the SD550 is a great all around camera. It has a long exposure mode which is great for really making laser beams pop out.

 

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Cool, so Cannon is a good company to look out for? Is there any particular spcification that would prevent laser beams showing up properly? Maybe it's my camera not picking up enough light, or hell even too much. Just kind of wierd how some work and some don't. Either that or it's busted lol...

 

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My Samsung Digimax A7 makes some pretty nice pictures, but it's not something you'd want to buy new anymore :-/

 

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I have a simple Sony Cybershot W80. Straightforward camera which will take good pictures, but with little "absolute" control over stuff like shutter speeds or aperture sizes. It's not like you use those settings often, but you miss them as soon as you discover you cannot manually control them. Probably gonna get a D-SLR soon, Nikon or Canon.

 

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Thanks for the suggestions. I guess it seems every camera has a flaw in one way or another, not a major problem to me as I know the kind of quality I'm paying for. However 405nm would be a preference... If anyone has anything else just keep it coming...

 

• Jun 10, 2008

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I am throwing around the idea of a nice Nikon or higher end Cannon than I have - I have the Cannon s2 is not whatever I typed before...it's a nice camera, I just want better, that's all Oh - and I have never been able to figure out the freaking macro function - even after reading lots about it !