<p>Lighting is key for any camera, but especially for the sensors in cell phones, tablets, and inexpensive point and shoots.</p>

<p>If you place your LEGOs in daylight or under a bright white LED / CFL you may find your iPad will do just fine.   Whereas, under normal room lighting the photos become a noisy mess.</p>

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<p>I've used pretty inexpensive point and shoot digital cameras to some degree of luck. But I also use a semi decent photo editing software to fix lighting and crop the image. </p>

<p>On my current LEGO Church Project build I've been using my Galaxy Tab Pro's camera which has a flash and it works rather well. Better than the cameras I had been using. </p>

<p>But the key as the other poster has pointed out. Lighting always makes things better. So a flash will help with that.</p>

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<p>What is an inexpensive camera for taking pictures of LEGO? I currently use an iPad and I am not satisfied with the photo quality. I would prefer something 100$ or less, if possible.</p>

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photography questions here usually get migrated to photo.stackexchange.com. See [this](https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/16741/what-are-the-best-techniques-for-making-great-photographs-of-lego-creations) question for example.
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What is an inexpensive camera for photographing LEGO?
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# What is an inexpensive camera for photographing LEGO?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-24)

What is an inexpensive camera for taking pictures of LEGO? I currently use an iPad and I am not satisfied with the photo quality. I would prefer something 100$ or less, if possible.

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> **username_1**: photography questions here usually get migrated to photo.stackexchange.com. See [this](https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/16741/what-are-the-best-techniques-for-making-great-photographs-of-lego-creations) question for example.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2016-02-24. Score: 5

Lighting is key for any camera, but especially for the sensors in cell phones, tablets, and inexpensive point and shoots.

If you place your LEGOs in daylight or under a bright white LED / CFL you may find your iPad will do just fine. Whereas, under normal room lighting the photos become a noisy mess.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2016-03-13. Score: 1

I've used pretty inexpensive point and shoot digital cameras to some degree of luck. But I also use a semi decent photo editing software to fix lighting and crop the image.

On my current LEGO Church Project build I've been using my Galaxy Tab Pro's camera which has a flash and it works rather well. Better than the cameras I had been using.

But the key as the other poster has pointed out. Lighting always makes things better. So a flash will help with that.


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