Griptilian 551 arrived today... took a fluff & buff before posing...

Great pix! If you'd like to add a few lines about your photo equipment and set up.......

Oh, great knife, too! I have five Grips, four folders, one fixed.
 
DougB2 said:
Great pix! If you'd like to add a few lines about your photo equipment and set up.......

Oh, great knife, too! I have five Grips, four folders, one fixed.
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Thanks, Doug, for the comments. I'll add a few lines about the set-up... but I don't know how helpful it will be, ultimately.

It's been years since I created these images. And I've got a half dozen cameras that I use (and many lenses), so I'm sorry I don't recall the particular camera nor lens.

But... that's not important anyway. It's not the camera or lens that makes the image, but the set-up, lighting, and who is operating the gear! I believe I had a small softbox to camera left, a reflector to camera right, and a small softbox above and behind the knife. Background was a sweep of white vinyl.

You could capture such an image with any recent production DSLR or even smaller camera, with quite a wide variety of lenses.

Many people mistakenly assume that if you know the camera and lens used, that will be able to re-create an image. The truth is that the camera and lens are verrry minor players. It's the user, first and foremost, who makes the image look as it does, through a wide variety of techniques and tools - which include post production processing on the computer. There are a great many aspects and elements that make an image look as it does. I have been a professional/commercial photographer for a lifetime... and I have employed all of the knowledge, skills, abilities, and equipment from a career in the business to create such images. It's a bit difficult to distill that all down into a single post in an internet thread.
 
I wish i had a böhler stainless grip
Would compliment my GP cpm m4 nicely

The latter is both extremely easy to use and strong, assuming the partial liner is anchored proper, the only practical flaws with the design being the somewhat large distance between guard and edge, and the low grind
 
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