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Best lens for DSLR?

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Posted by richhotrain on Friday, May 3, 2024 4:38 PM

Yeah, but now you are replying to this revived thread 3 months later. It inadvertently forces readers to read through a 12 year old thread to understand the context of your reply to a very old thread. It would be far more appropriate to just start a new thread and, if you so desire, provide a link to the old thread.

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Posted by rrebell on Saturday, May 4, 2024 7:51 AM

Back in the begining of digital vs regular cameras a profesional in the feild said once they hit 10 mp he would change over, my phone camera dose better now.

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Posted by BN7150 on Saturday, May 11, 2024 10:30 AM

Is the level that the OP is looking for something like the following photos? That can be accomplished with a standard zoom lens, a tripod and some table lights. There is no need to think too hard about it other than setting the aperture to the maximum value. 12877

GP38 from Athearn GP38-2 undec

AC4400CW from Athearn un-numberes

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Posted by BN7150 on Sunday, May 12, 2024 2:48 PM

The problem with this type of photography is house cars. For some reason, the side panel appears to be distorted in the photo. Don't you think these two pieces look like they are curved diagonally? Is it just my imagination? 13046

Are there any optical illusion experts?

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Posted by BN7150 on Thursday, May 16, 2024 5:49 AM

With a normal camera, we cannot increase the depth of field beyond a certain level, but by using a technology called focus stacking (Wikipedia), we can increase the depth of field to infinity. Someone who handles layout photography should be familiar with this. The following two photos were taken hand-held with an Olympus point-and-shoot camera equipped with this function. Unfortunately, these are not my works. DSLR cameras are also commercially available. It requires some tricks to use, and it takes a little trial and error to get used to it. 13281

P.S. The next photo was taken using the focus stacking function of the Olympus TG-5 (point-and-shoot camera). The reason why the image is blurry is probably because the lens is full of scratches. The light source was fluorescent, and the color setting was auto. May 18, 2024 13463

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Posted by danmerkel on Thursday, May 30, 2024 5:46 PM

howmus
Also get a remote shutter release for your DSLR.

I've found that the built-in timer works very well as well... and you don't need to buy another piece of gear. :)

dlm

 

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