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[quote user="galaxy"] Many have their own way and own lighting that makes the best pic for them and their camera. SOme have only a point and shoot camera, you seem to have a higher quality camera and is higher price,i am sure. Develping or storage memory cards ain't cheap either. <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] Point-and-shoots in the right environment are just as useable as the more expensive models, unless you have one that's incapable of focusing or exposing properly. Lighting is the most important part - a lot of the problems you'll find shooting model railroads with a point-and-shoot is that while it looks bright to your eye, it's actually quite dark and cameras have to work extra hard (high ISO) to expose the image properly, causing a huge loss in quality. Give your point-and-shoot plenty of light and your results will improve drastically. I purchased a pair of 300-watt equivalent CFLs (for shooting portraits - halogen and incandescent give off too much heat) and use those while shooting my layout. They give off plenty of light and properly color-corrected, you can't tell they're CFLs. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EePpb2RjIdc/Tl_jjfmXFYI/AAAAAAAAAN4/hDTq57wXP7U/s1600/IMG_4971.jpg">Example</a> The other problem is depth of field, since their lenses only go up to maybe f/5.6 at the maximum, whereas non-retractable (larger) separate lenses on DSLRs stop down to f/22 or more. This is easily corrected by any of the focus composite softwares out there. (CombineZM is a free one) As for the price of memory cards...that's really not a big deal anymore. Pick up a 1GB memory card for a few bucks and you're set to go unless you shoot a LOT of photos at once. Just get in the habit of dumping it to your computer every once in a while (at least once a week for me, but I shoot a lot) so it doesn't fill up. Just busting some myths here as a part-time professional photographer who shoots professionally with a Canon DSLR and for fun with a Panasonic point-and-shoot...
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