[Jewelry making - Article 00933] - Re: [Orchid] Take picture of jewelry

[Ken Paulson]

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    Dear Iva; I've been using an old Nikon SLR camera for the past
    seventeen or so years and have been quite pleased with the results.
    It is fitted with a 2x Macro lens that I picked up second hand. This
    is sufficient to achieve very detailed shots. The fStop is set to the
    smallest aperture/largest number, (I'm at home now and can't remember
    for the life of me what that number is)and the exposure is set to
    Auto. This means that, depending on the brightness of the room,
    exposure times can be several seconds. Use a small tripod. 

    I leave the macro and focussing lenses set to the closest focal
    length and simply move the piece around 'til it's in focus. The small
    aperture means that the depth of field is, I don't know, deeper so
    the front and back of a ring are both in focus. 

    I used up a lot of film and some weird filters before I realized
    that the strange colours and exposure problems that sometimes showed
    up were more due to bad developing than anything else. Find a good
    photo store where people will listen to you. Real photographers find
    my method hopelessly low-tech, but it works for me. Hope this helps. 

Ken Paulson.
Saskatoon, SK.


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