Hi from Germany, I work at the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Bonn University, Germany. My chief wants to buy a digicam with a ringflash and for the beginning we don`t want to spend more than 2500 US$. This Cam should be used for intraoral photography (ringflash) as well as for enface-photography (portraits). Now we came over a package by dinecorp (www.dinecorp.com), that uses the Olympus C-2500L with a ringflash. I would like to know your opinion about that and ask you, if you have any good recommendations for that field of digital photography. Thanks for your help, Bye, George

-- Georg Haegler (haegler@uni-bonn.de), June 19, 2000

Answers

Hello Gerog,

I am also in the same specialty at Tufts University in the US. Recently one of our resident brought a C2500 with a macro lense and ring flash. The macro did not fit tightly on the camera's lense. The other issue is that the LCD is not used for focus. In taking macro clinical pictures, looking at the LCD is easier than using the viewfinder. Also, if one wants to adapt the camera to an endoscope (which I intent to do), the "live" LCD is necessary. I brought a Nikon 990, and intend to get a DigiSlave ring flash. My experience with the Nikon is limited, and I have not used it yet for intraoral pictures.

-- Tony Woo (tony.woo@tufts.edu), June 24, 2000.