A proper tripod and lighting arrangement will be as important or more so
than the camera and lens. Resolution is relatively unimportant for web
shots but good depth of field and good exposure without myriads of
specular reflections is important and often hard to achieve.
Chuck Norcutt (ex jewelry, pottery and other art works photographer) :-)
On 12/17/2010 2:30 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> A friend is a jewler locally, and shoots all his own photos for his
> advertising, and they all look quite good. He uses a D3X with a 60mm macro.
> He has a special lighting setup that is made especially for shooting
> jewlery, something like a hoselight on steroids.
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> Of course he is a hobbiest photographer and has tons of other presumably
> deductable stuff.
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> Bill Pearce
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> From: Bob Whitmire [mailto:bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 9:57 AM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: [OM] Jeweler's camera
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> A friend down the street who designs and sells jewelry wants a camera for
> around the shop use. Small pictures of jewelry for the web site, pictures of
> customers, etc. A guy she knows has recommended the OLYMPUS PEN E-PL1. It
> comes with the 14-22 lens?
>
> I'm sure she's going to want macro capability to get those jewelry pics, and
> I'm not sure the stock Oly lens is up to the task. But I don't know. I do
> know some of you own one. Do you have a separate macro?
>
> Or might she be better off with something like a G12?
>
> $500 is her upper limit, but I'm sure she'd go a bit further for the right
> camera.
>
> Recommendations gratefully accepted.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
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