What type or brand of camera do you use to take your fish pics?

What camera do you use? What settings do you use? What tips can you pass along to those who want to take pictures of their fish?

Here's a thread I started.

https://usafishbox.forumotion.com/t5489-tips-on-taking-photos-of-aquariums

I use a Nikon D-40... nothing special. I use the "auto" setting and I take 100 pictures to get 5 I like! Darn fish never cooperate! Honestly my pictures are pretty good, but some of my friends are so good mine always look sub-par. In all fairness most of my fish are african cichlids from the Victorian Basin so they are so pretty a polaroid of them would be nice.
JB

I use a Kodak EasyShare Z740. I take hundreds of pictures of my Bettas and at first I couldn't get a dang nice picture. Then after fooling around with it I finally figured it out. I put the fish in a half filled Beanie Box and put a small aquarium lamp on top of it. DO NOT use a flash. When first starting out I would try to get in really close but learned later that it is better to have the camera back a little and then crop it which makes the fish picture bigger and clearer. Here is one of my Betta pictures using this technique.( the plant in the background in a fake plant behind the Beanie Box.)

Great picture! I think thats my problem. I want to get to close for that large picture.
Then I can not get the camera in focus. I feed my cichlids a little and they kind of settle down some near the bottom of the tank. Thanks every one for the tips.

Great information, thanks for sharing!