Leon Altoff wrote: > Thanks for the ideas and if anyone has any more keep them coming.
A small dab of agar, glycerin, or gelatin, on the end of the dowel to keep the specimen in place at angles it wouldn't normally want to stay in. Maybe a sheet of glass or perspex that's larger than the camera's field of view in your shooting setup, then arrange the camera and flash(es) so you don't get reflections ... possibly requiring polarizers, though I don't know if perspex polarizes reflections the way most glasses do. Just put the specimen on the sheet instead of trying to perch it on a dowel. Sheet has to be scratch free (that's why glass might be better) and /spotlessly/ clean. Still need a way to deal with getting the specimen at angles which gravity decrees not to be stable. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
