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Randy
Aug 28, 2006
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Hi

Sorry if this is a little off-topic.

My passion is creating games textures with Photoshop. My current digital camera is a first-gen that fish-eyes my textures to some extent. I want to spend $500.

Anyone have any recommendations or things I should stay away from ?

Randy
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jaSPAMc
Aug 28, 2006
On 28 Aug 2006 07:14:33 -0700, "Randy" found these unused words floating about:

Hi

Sorry if this is a little off-topic.

My passion is creating games textures with Photoshop. My current digital camera is a first-gen that fish-eyes my textures to some extent. I want to spend $500.

Anyone have any recommendations or things I should stay away from ?
Randy

To avoid ‘fisheye’ simply choose a good camera with a lens that will allow a 35mm equivalent of 70mm.
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Aaron
Aug 28, 2006
Randy wrote:
Hi

Sorry if this is a little off-topic.

My passion is creating games textures with Photoshop. My current digital camera is a first-gen that fish-eyes my textures to some extent. I want to spend $500.

Anyone have any recommendations or things I should stay away from ?
Randy

What you’re talking about is called "geometric distortion." In your research, look for a camera and lens combination that meets your other technical specifications and boasts the least amount of geometric distortion.

Typically, geometric distortion decreases as the distance from the lens increases, but it depends on a lot of factors. Few camera/lens combinations for $500 will offer NO geometric distortion (it is practically impossible; lenses bend light.)

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Kingdom
Aug 29, 2006
"Randy" wrote in news:1156774473.140277.124840 @b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Hi

Sorry if this is a little off-topic.

My passion is creating games textures with Photoshop. My current digital camera is a first-gen that fish-eyes my textures to some extent. I want to spend $500.

Anyone have any recommendations or things I should stay away from ?
Randy

Camera best deal for the money is the Fuji S5600 Shop around for deals like inc. 1gb xd card

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0507/05072802fuji_s5200zs5600z. asp

As for lense distorsions CS2 has built in corrections see:-

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/correctinglensdistortion.htm

if your using a pre cs2 version check this out:-

http://www.altostorm.com/

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