Knife Photos

[mayor]

The photo conversation has been interesting.

I have had many photos made by Weyer over the years and he is excellent. He also has good connections to get your work published if you pay for his service of distributing the work to the various magazines.

There is another technology emerging now. One of Weyer's photographers has joined a group named Point Seven and they shoot with high-quality digital cameras wired right into a big computer hard drive. Completely out of the class of the digital cameras for home use.

I've been amazed at the quality of the digital product. Every bit as good as the best studio-shot film-type photo.

If you want to see an example look at the lead photo of the mammoth ivory drop point on my web page http://www.livingston.net/mayor

Remember this has been reduced to internet quality. The print is much better than the image on the web.

The new technology is fascinating to me.



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Ben R. Ogletree, Jr.

 

[Chiro75]

I have seen the Point Seven stuff in various publications and there is no difference in quality between plain film and the digital stuff. Plus, with all the filters and stuff the digital technology has to offer the ability to embellish the photos or mask imperfections is endless. Plus no developing costs or anything like that. I wonder how they would print, though, if you wanted to have a framed rendition of it...

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[mayor]

They print just great. When Point 7 digitally photoed my knives they gave me the image on a diskette and also a 5x7 and 8x10 print. Looks just like something from the cover of "Blade" or "Knives Illustrated"

A year later I took them another knife and they said they'd put all my images on a CD and return to me that way. Haven't received the CD yet but will probably be a good way to store the data.

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Ben R. Ogletree, Jr.