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[Ed Huskinson]

Steve!!!! Dude!!! I didn't know you were supposed to use the wide angle setting with the macro setting!!! ( https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=5259#5259 ) This means that I might be able to take more better gooder close up photographs!! Such a simple thing, and I didn't know it. Here, let me step over here into the "Duh" corner.

Here's a close-up photo that I just took of a rounded intermediate igneous rock (a quartz monzonite? I don't know. It has another special meaning for me) that was picked up on the beach at the tip of Baja, Mexico. It's crystal clear. This means that I can now take decent photographs of my stuff.

Man, we all owe you for enlightening me on this. I will no longer be foisting poor quality out of focus photographs on my fellow forum members. We all thank you for this simple piece of advice.

Come see me in Tucson in 20-ought-10 (it's an inside joke) and I'll buy you a BEvERage of your choice.

Many thank-you's

Ed

[Jordi Fabre]

Ed,

Assuming that you can read Spanish language, I suggest to you to know more about how to do good photos of minerals reading this post in our Spanish Forum:
https://www.foro-minerales.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1598

For all English speakers the "Bible" is the article "Advanced Lighting Techniques for Mineral photography" from Wendell Wilson, available on line here:
https://www.minrec.org/pdfs/Advanced%20Lighting%20Techniques.pdf

Jordi

[Screenname]

I always just use my digital camera which seems to do an OK job,

[Jim Prentiss]

Hi Ed,

I only have a little Casio 5mega pixel digital camera. But sometimes I get lucky as in most of the following shots

[Matt_Zukowski]

...dude...more, better, gooder...sounds like a conversation that would go well with a beverage.

-dude

[Jim Prentiss]

Yes Matt,

Maybe over at Koots.

jim

[Screenname]

I mentioned before my digital camera which doesn't make anything as good as these so I tried something. I placed a 10X jewelers loop in front of my camera lens, it's a small camera so the loop lens fitted right up against it and this is what I did. I am getting a better camera soon that can take better close ups and this technique works with other hand lenses a great way for the financially challenged to get some some what decent macro photos. This rock is actually a tiny rock found in gravel so it's about a half an inch or more in length.