[TheForge] Re: Photographing your work

Thu Jun 5 07:19:00 2003

That's true Shannell, the S400 is a great camera too, it just does not have
that flip-out and twist LCD screen that I think every digital camera should
have, and that is so useful.

Harry
Rusty Dog Forge

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Shannell Sugrue
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 6:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Photographing your work

Youre right the G3 is an awesome camera, but the canon s400 is cheaper,
easier to use and uses the same ccd, lens and processing system, its also
the smallest 4 megapixel in the world. I love mine and highly reccomend it,
they are around $480 USD

----- Original Message -----
From: "H and P Foster" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 05 June, 2003 7:36 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Re: Photographing your work

> Phlip.  A very good digital camera that I recommend to any and all is the
> Canon G3.  It can be used as a point and shoot camera of one can use its
> very professional features and get incredible results. You can even hook
it
> up to a laptop and control all the camera features from the laptop and
your
> computer screen becomes the camera screen, so you really see what you are
> doing.  It has pretty well the best battery life of any camera out there
and
> the brightest LCD screen works very well outside in bright light, unlike a
> lot of them. The other great feature of the screen is that it flips out
from
> the camera body and will rotate so you can get shooting angles that are
very
> difficult or impossible with cameras that have the screen fixed on the
back.
>
> In the spring issue 2002 of the Hammer's Blow, I did an article on how to
> photograph your ironwork.  This was showing techniques to get very nice
> results without having to spend a lot of money on lighting equipment,
using
> both daylight and tungston lighting.  Brian Gilbert also showed a home
made
> device he uses to get good lighting results. Not sure of the issue, but it
> was around the same time.
>
> The industry standard software is "Adobe Photoshop". It is quite expensive
> (like more than the camera) but the software that comes with the camera
will
> more than satisfy you to start.
>
> Best of luck and oh yea, I like reading your stuff too.
>
> Harry Foster
> Rusty Dog Forge
> http://pages.infinit.net/rustydog/home.htm
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Phlip
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:48 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Photographing your work
>
>
>
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
> > Phlip ... have you seen the ridiculously low prices on decent digital
> > cameras these days?  Several years ago I bought my Kodak DC120
mega-pixel
> > at a 'steal' of around $400.  Yesterday I was in K-mart and Wal-Mart and
> > took a quick look at their digital cameras ... multi-mega-pixel, 2 or 3
or
> > more optical zoom plus digital zoom, etc.... and in the neighborhood of
> > $140-$175.  If all you want a digital camera for is to upload to your
> > computer or to the internet, then you don't even need to go up to the
> > mega-pixel size.
>
> Yeah, I know, but at the moment, even $20-$30 is a strain on my finances
;-)
> Things are improving, but I'm basicly being supported by some friends as I
> work to take over my own expenses, and restart my life- Hey, Life Happens
> ;-)
>
> However, I'd be very interested in hearing from you guys, about the
utility
> of various cameras and imaging systems. I've been accomplishing quite a
bit
> lately- my travelling forge set-up, some of my smithing work, some of my
> student's work- and I'd like to share it, but at the moment, as I had
> mentioned, I lack the capacity.
>
> So, I'll ask_
>
> What's YOUR choice of camera- function vs cost?
>
> Do you have a computer program that coordinates with your camera, to give
> you the best possible images? If so, what is it?
>
> Are there any tricks of lighting and arrangement that give you the best
> possible images to display your work? If so, what are they?
>
>
> Phlip
>
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
>
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
>
>
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