Good camera for taking knife pictures?

[bladefixation2]

no, no, no...
shoot at 2.8
you want a small depth of field for close ups

no shoot at f8!!!



The image will be sharper too, lens sharpenss varies with the aperture setting, stopping the lens down a couple of stops to f5.6 or f8 usually gives a much sharper image

 

[SharpByCoop]

dpreview was where I've been looking at features (since bestbuy ads don't tell you jack). Bestbuy doesn't have the SD700IS, but they do have the SD800IS (I want to stick with Bestbuy because I have a BB Reward Zone CC and I get quite a lot of money back). The Cannon and the Casio look quite similar. The Cannon doesn't have shutter/apature priority, but it does have a lower apature (f/2.8). What would be the benifit of having the lower fstop? The price difference isn't enough for me to worry about if the Casio is a better camera (if).

Sounds like the Casio is the right camera for you. Go for it. :thumbup:

Coop

 

[PhilL]

no shoot at f8!!!
The image will be sharper too, lens sharpenss varies with the aperture setting, stopping the lens down a couple of stops to f5.6 or f8 usually gives a much sharper image

It's always been my understanding that lens are designed to be sharpest at the middle f/stops (f/5.6 -f/8) but it's not going to be much sharper, it will hardly be negligible. You're going to want as much depth of field as possible when you do close-up or macro photography. Stop your lens down all the way, f/16 or f/22. I still have lenes from my 8" X 10" Dereforf that stop down to f/64.

 

[bladefixation2]

It's always been my understanding that lens are designed to be sharpest at the middle f/stops (f/5.6 -f/8) but it's not going to be much sharper, it will hardly be negligible. You're going to want as much depth of field as possible when you do close-up or macro photography. Stop your lens down all the way, f/16 or f/22. I still have lenes from my 8" X 10" Dereforf that stop down to f/64.

ok you win, I can only hit f32 with my macro lens

The corners arent usually too sharp wide open but like you say at least to begin with it wont make much difference

Definately the smaller aperture the better, but if he stops down to f32 and ends up with a really slow shutter speed unless he uses a cable release it might be counter productive.

You must be seriousley into landscape photography to warrant splashing out on an 8x10". I've always wanted to look into that with the zone exposure system and everything but I've never had the time.

I've just bought a 17-40 f4 maybe I should have a crack at it

 

[PhilL]

You must be seriousley into landscape photography to warrant splashing out on an 8x10".

Uhhhhh, I'm not Ansel Adams, (although I love his work) my 8" X !0" was used for studio product photography. I worked for two of the major Department stores in NYC, and most photos for ads were shot to layout size, and were just contact printed. The Fashion shots and full page ads of course were enlarged.

I considered back a few years ago to start doing knife photography professionally with my 8" X 10". The image quality and well as the controls that a view camera offers would be awesome. I changed my mind because I didn't want to get back into photography, and I don't think many would have been able to afford my work.

 

[bladefixation2]

Interesting to hear that, it would never have crossed my mind that an 8x10 would be used for that. I always thought Hasselblad style 6x6 or 6x8cm were used for things like that.

 

[PhilL]

Still lifes were done with a view camera. I did photograph a catalog once using only 35mm (Nikon) just to try something different. The photos were fine and there were no complaints or reshoots, I went back to my view camera any way.

I would say about 80% of the fashion work I did was with a Hasselblad.

 

[=Voodoo=]

sharpness can be edited in pp

landscape photos need a wide range of depth of field

yea, lenses usually have a sweet spot stopped down a few from max


buy a camera with a lens of 2.8 or lower
fast glass will allow for more flexibilty

if you dont want bokeh, with emphasis on your subject(ie knife) stop down

this was taken with a sony t1 or something like that stopped down to lowest fstop, handheld, inside my kitchen, no flash, macro mode.

good luck, there are many ways to take a pic.

 

[bladefixation2]

its a good photo, but if you had stopped down a couple of f stops like i suggested the back edge of the face (6 o clock) and the far section of the case would have been in focus too