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In the past shooting close-up images was in the area of true professionals. It required expensive equipment and large SLR photo cameras with special lenses capable of taking photos in true 1:1 ratio. In simple words it means that the object you are photographing appears in the same size in camera's sensor as in real life. Well, contrary to what we might think today with all those cheap compact and digital SLR photo cameras to take truly astonishing photo of amazing micro world it still requires not so cheap lenses and matching specially designed flashes. Nikon P500 in 'action' However, new digital photo world in its 'blooming' era in previous decade brought something else to the scene. Something equally important and with quality far beyond we used to in previous 'analog' world. Actually, two new things are introduced in the business - computerization of the camera and large worldwide competition between leading manufacturers. First one brought simp...

When I bought my first digital camera back in 2003 (HP PhotoSmart C850), a new digital era started for me, and beginning from that date, I currently have about 6000 photos and 1000 videos in my collection, or 67.7 GB of storage space occupied on several computers or HD media. Comparing it to a sum of up to 500 analog photos I scanned from the pre-digital era, this is really a milestone in everybody's family collection. Pushed by my father's old analog photo laboratory when I was a little kid, I got interested in photography. We always tended to make some not-so-ordinary photos -nice black-and-white and early color photos with not only people on them. Early color photos - Analog SLR, Polaroid, and point-and-shoot There are plenty of out-of-the-ordinary staged photos. I remember we even made montaged photos including a couple of UFOs we made out of kitchen plates, modeling clay, and fishing strings. It looks like photoshopping today destroyed all that productivity, since ...