----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Franklin" Subject: Re: Macro setup problem
> 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. Depending on Leons budget, he might want to polarize his lights. William Robb -- 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.
