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Quality Tattoo Photos


 
 
Looking for tips or tricks to getting good magazine quality tattoo photos of my work. I have as yet to find the perfect camera or lens combo to achieve this. I have an old pentax mx slr camera with several diffrent lens combinations, a pentax IQZoom 160, and a sony DSC-p31 digital still camera. the slr I have trouble with lens combos to get a good shot, the auto focus gives me too much glare or way to fuzzy close ups, and the digital is very grainy and bright wat do you recommend to slve my delima?


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January 29, 2003

 

doug Nelson 		  Your Pentax MX with it's 50-mm lens should be fine with a 25-mm lens tube to enable closer focus. For lighting, try diffuse soft window light. You'll find yourself using a tripod and a slow shutter speed, perhaps.
Anyone here use a ring light? It's flash that is a ring around the outside of your lens. Ebay sellers use them for even illumination of things like jewelry. An inexpensive one by Samigon is on the market, and may do the job for you.
If such a set-up is not close enough to fill the frame with your tatoo, consider a 50-mm macro lens. Pentax screw-mount 50-mm f4 macros are a bargain, and can be used on your MX with an inexpensive screw-to-K adapter.


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January 30, 2003

 
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