camera for close-ups

Greetings

I'm going to be purchasing a digital camera soon - partly for general family
stuff, but I will also want it to take close-ups of jewellery items
(ear-rings, necklaces etc) on display stands - with the aim of showing
photos on the net to sell them in ebay.

Can anyone please tell me if I need a camera with some minimum of optical
zoom in order to do this? What sort of quality/resolution is needed to put
photos on the net?

Will probably have more questions as I start to think of specific cameras.

Cheers




Me

My son, who's wife is a manufacturing jeweller, uses a Canon A80 but any
camera with a similar macro capability would do as well, probably.

Ross

"Me" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Greetings
>
> I'm going to be purchasing a digital camera soon - partly for general
> family stuff, but I will also want it to take close-ups of jewellery items
> (ear-rings, necklaces etc) on display stands - with the aim of showing
> photos on the net to sell them in ebay.
>
> Can anyone please tell me if I need a camera with some minimum of optical
> zoom in order to do this? What sort of quality/resolution is needed to put
> photos on the net?
>
> Will probably have more questions as I start to think of specific cameras.
>
> Cheers
>

Thanks, I'll look up the specs of that camera.

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:54:08 +0100, "Me" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Greetings
>
>I'm going to be purchasing a digital camera soon - partly for general family
>stuff, but I will also want it to take close-ups of jewellery items
>(ear-rings, necklaces etc) on display stands - with the aim of showing
>photos on the net to sell them in ebay.
>
>Can anyone please tell me if I need a camera with some minimum of optical
>zoom in order to do this? What sort of quality/resolution is needed to put
>photos on the net?
>
>Will probably have more questions as I start to think of specific cameras.
>
>Cheers
>


3.2 megapixels Olympus C-160 (In Europe it is D395)

Inexpensive and the macro colors are good in low light..

Take a look (no flash)

http://eight.ath.cx:8081/etc/Macro_AngPow.jpg

I've put 640x480 photos on eBay that look just fine. You need a lot more
resolution for prints then you do when posting on the Net.


"Me" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Greetings
>
> I'm going to be purchasing a digital camera soon - partly for general
> family stuff, but I will also want it to take close-ups of jewellery items
> (ear-rings, necklaces etc) on display stands - with the aim of showing
> photos on the net to sell them in ebay.
>
> Can anyone please tell me if I need a camera with some minimum of optical
> zoom in order to do this? What sort of quality/resolution is needed to put
> photos on the net?
>
> Will probably have more questions as I start to think of specific cameras.
>
> Cheers
>