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(...) And, as I found, a much more frustrating one as you muck around with phone books, boxes and the like to get the relative heights correct, then muck around trying to get the camera back into its correct position on the beanbag when you press (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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Hi! I got to install a cheap microscope with a videocamera built in at work yesterday. Needing to test the equipment on something I took out my LEGOLAND-keychain from my pocket. Since the microscope was not "that" good, the light horrible and the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) have (...) Given that price is probably important to you, I would suggest scanning the sales and specials for whatever cameras are cheap at local camera shops, Harvey Norman, OfficeWorks, etc, and buy one that meets these needs: Pixels: I (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Excellent. What a great resource. I'll definitely have to play with these when I get some spare time. Thanks for posting it! J (22 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography, FTX)
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Hi, I found a great source of background images: (URL) Check it out, there are high quality pictures of the moon, earth, mars, of nebulae, etc. These pictures are not big enough for being printed, but they do fine for web publishing. If you use a (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography, FTX)
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(...) Jonathan, We bought the DSC-P5 (also 3.2 megapixel) after Christmas 2001 (Love it!) If you want additional memory keep an eye on Buy.com's "Today's Deals" They were selling the Lexar MS128 - Flash Memory Stick - 128MB for $29.99 with free (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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I just bought a Sony Cybershot DSC-P32 (there is no way my budget could stretch to anything more, plus I got this one at a discount). Anyone got any tips for using this camera to photograph lego? (the manual says you can go as close as 10cm to the (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Cool I will have to try a setup like that when I get some time. Thanks, Kevin (22 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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(...) Not sure about the camera, but you might want to buy a tripod as well. I've found it helps avoid blurry shots. Cheers, (URL) Sci-Fi LEGO> (22 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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I just got AU$250 in birthday money so I am now in a position to buy a usable digital camera (what I have is no good for lego since it doesnt have a macro mode). So, I want to know what camera to buy with my AU$250 (plus some of my own money). Any (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Thanks Kevin! Here are some details on what I usually do... Setup: Here's a (URL) of my usual photography setup. I used to use a long piece of heavy paper from a (very) large printer but I find the bed sheet is much easier to work with. Due to (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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Very nice Jason. Between that and Junkbot I can see you've been using your time very well :) I have one question. How are you taking such high quality photographs - especially the ones with the all white backgrounds? The photographs are brilliantly (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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Yesterday NELUG participated in the Portsmouth Games Weekend, a periodic gaming convention in Portsmouth, NH. Two 4-hour BrikWars games were played: 9:00am-1:00pm: "It Takes A Pillage" - TL2 mayhem 2:00pm-6:00pm: "Sanford & Son and the Tox Uthat", (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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I've been taking a lot of photos of LEGO people and their creations over the past 18 months, and right after I got back from NWBrickCon 2003, I thought it would be fun to see what all those photos looked like in an ultra-fast chronological photo (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.or.por, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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(...) Use a manual white balance reading if you have to. As long as there is no interfering sunlight or other light color type, the images should be fine. -jHk (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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Some- well alot- of it is your camera- fixed focus 4 feet to infinity ain't going to do very well in the macro realm. Something like the $200 canon A60 would do a lot better in getting closer. Just resist the urge to get closer then 4 feet. Crop if (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.publish.photography, FTX)
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(...) Some additions to what Chris said. Not all light is created equal. I used to flood my models with incandescent light bulbs, which would put a very heavy yellow tinge on my pictures. When I moved to my new build space I put up natural light (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-03, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Well I am not familiar with that particular camera, but I've been struggling to improve my digital photography skills literally since the day BrickShelf was announced on LUGNET. Here are a few tips I've picked up so far: Use more light! Borrow (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-03, to lugnet.publish.photography, FTX)
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My camera is: Concord EyeQ Duo LCD 1.3 megapixels 2x digital zoom 9.9mm f/3.2 flash the manual says its "focus free from 4 feet to infinity" No matter what I do, I cant get it to take good photos of my lego creations. Examples of how the photos have (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-03, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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Hello, all. I've been away from the LUGNET and the camera recently, but now I have it back I've been experimenting with yet more lighting. I've found a very useful lighting technique: lighting from beneath. It can help make pics like this: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.publish.photography, FTX)
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