Sort of......About Cameras (which seem to be essential to posting here).

I know this woman, her name is Sarah.... mmmm..... I don't remember her surname, she is from Alaska.
There she is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbb3PxYrMcs
I like very much the country music , and especially from Trace Adkins.

"Turbid" , I mean that the pictures printed with the big size and maximum quality(resolution) are not so sharp and clear as it was at the first years of use.
May be it is only my suspiciousness.
 
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Soon nobody will remember her name......but she'll probably still be watching you.

:D

Thanks for the clarification on turbid.

I'd be interested in stories from others as to the durability and longevity of digital cameras.

Thanks.
 
Since that old thread was mentioned, I need to do some updates.......the Mart Store bulbs mentioned in thread now can easily be found in at least 45 watt. More light the better.

OK, this is sorta humorus......

I mentioned that I ordered 2 photo flour. bulbs in 85 watt, $10 each from Animazon. Well I did not read the specs. as to their siZE.
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I think I saw a much larger clamp on light at home store ......BUT let me say you just about have to have sunglasses on to view the scene your knife is in when that monster is on......but the camera is very happy.....300
 
I've never bothered to make a light box (although I have quickly made a "light barricade" by setting up some paper towels around a knife to soften the light and prevent glare).

I guess the reason is that I'm retired and usually find time during the day to use natural lighting. I just use 5.6 in a part of the room that has fairly LOW natural lighting and then use a very slow shutter speed.

I can almost always get a good picture that way with very little fuss and muss.

And I'm still testing the new 4/3 camera, but it appears that it has some potential. The picture that I posted above, for example......

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Can be cropped pretty severely.....

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And still look sharp. That one was hand-held at 1/8 of a second, so I need to try some with a tripod to get a better idea of the sharpness, though.
 
Well, BG, yes, your picture looks sharp. That's true. But what you see at the cropped detail
you see the artificial sharpening. The white lines under and above the red ones, the white
areas around the black letters. That makes the picture look sharp. If you switch off the arti-
ficial sharpening, what you can do with the better cameras, you can see how sharp the
pictures are in real. For internet the sharpened pictures are the best ones and they look
crisp. But for enlarging, the pictures are not the best. I would like to recommend you to
search in the camera menu the top sharpening and try what happens if you turn the regulator.

Best,
Haebbie
 
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One important thing about this camera: One would naturally expect that it would have a macro setting, right?

Well, it does.....but you have to buy a macro lens in order for the setting to have any use.

One of the consequences of buying a "big boy" camera, I guess.

Actually, I think the photo quality will be such that, for knives at least, I can just crop viciously to get closeups of stamps and blade edges and such smaller stuff.

Interesting, this digital photography......and I thank all who have offered advice and info.
 
No, BG, you don't have to buy one of the big ones. Just a good compact camera will do a very good job for taking knife pictures. We have tested a lot of cameras with near by objects. The compact cameras with a "macro" function (it is not macro per definition) will make good and sharp pictures if you don't make mistakes. It is more difficult to use a dslr or other big ones for "macros".
Best, Haebbie
 
I agree, Haeb.

I'm thinking the small Olympus EPL-1 with 4/3 (chip or sensor) is all I'll ever need (and I only need that because I have some landscapes and artsy stuff that I might aspire to frame and hang on the wall as 20x14 or larger).

Otherwise, as you say......the little P&S pocket cameras with the small sensors are quite sufficient.
 
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A little experimentation with the little 4/3 chip Olympus.

Set up with tripod in corner of room away from windows with homemade foil reflector behind knife to prevent shadows.

Lens eight inches from knife, composed by twisting zoom, aperture at F5.6 with shutter speed at one to two seconds, ISO 100, image stabilization turned off, using two second timer to avoid shake......

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And just by cropping that last pic I can get this:

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So far......so good. Don't really even need macro.

:)
 
And, as I said, I always loved my old faithful 1967 Olympus Pen, so this camera has nostalgia going for it, too.

I'm happy.

:)

And thanks for educating me about the 4/3 chip!!
 
OK, looks like you got the de-vice, now to work on the 8 inches behind. Get some of my eraser 'silly puddy' and a big white card to stand next to the knife and tilt that 110 enough so the dark reflection goes by-by from the bolsters.....or get a light box.....300
 
"Eraser Silly puddy?"

Ok, I'll bite. What is that?

Tilting, that I can figure out.

:)
 
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