Taking Pics of your minis............

rabidroadkill · Post by **rabidroadkill** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 12:48 am

Can anyone give me any advice on how to clean my pics up. I got a new digital camera for Christmas, and have tried to take some pics of my minis. It is a 2.0 megapixel, but the pictures are HORRIBLE. They are so blurry you can't tell what is what.

Any advice? I have read through the manual but nothing has helped.

dakkakhan · Post by **dakkakhan** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:59 am

I don't know much, but getting a tripod to hold the camera steady has really helped out quite a bit.

Oh, and use the 'Macro' setting, most cameras have one.

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:09 am

I think the macro setting is the key.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:01 am

- Macro setting
- Good light (daylight or at least 2 lamps) -> no flash
- If possible to set, high aperture setting of 4.0+ (gives you a deeper focus area), for larger minis with lots of depth 8.0+
- Tripod or other way to stablise the camera
- use of timed shutter prevents shaking the camera when releasing the shutter.

Melifaxis · Post by **Melifaxis** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:01 pm

Thanks! I was just going to search for a thread like this after taking some abysmal pics this weekend!

rabidroadkill · Post by **rabidroadkill** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:25 pm

BAH!!!! Of course my dad went cheap-ass on me for Christmas and got a junky digital camera with no Macro mode.

He always finds ways to get "good gifts" but are very cheap. But I guess I would too if I had to buy for 7 kids and 4 grandkids

Guess I'll just have to wait until my brother from Indy comes home with his camera........

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:45 pm

If you don't have a macro mode, all you can do is test the minimal focus range of the camera.

Just take a couple of pictures, moving the mini an inch back every time and note down which picture number has which distance to the camera. Once the pictures get focussed, you know how close you can go roughly (usually 15-20 cm without macro mode). Then just take the pics at that distance using maximum resolution and crop them to the mini size. with 2 megapixels they still could be of decent size (200x250 pixels is usually good enough for the webpresentation of a mini)