Suprising Macro's
It's a while ago I purchased the little PENTAX (as I call it).
My main camera is a PENTAX dSLR, but the little S5n is a brilliant compact metal skinned beauty that I bought for it's 30fps 640x480 no length limit (until card is full) movie shooting. It was an impulse buy really, but it's a very nice little camera to handle.
In my work I very often see things that must be recorded to show the customer and to keep for future referrence, I had an old KODAK DC280 for this, but it died so the little PENTAX came in handy here.
But it was much better than the KODAK as I found it could take fabulously close macros! This makes the cam ideal for those very close-up shots of burned chips, popped caps and other computer hardware failures that I need recorded.
Here's a shot of a 20 pin PSU to mother board power connection plug which, after an electrical storm, showed how the spike travelled to the motherboard itself.
EXIF overlaid for the curious
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