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Need camera to photograph white boards and electronic circuits
raymond wrote:
I need to procure a digital camera to use for our work, the main subjects will be white boards photographed after technical meetings and a suite of electronics that we are developing. We essentially want to keep a photo journal (web-based). The downside of our attempts with low-end digital cameras has been the reflection from the flash; I need to use the flash to keep the shutterspeed minimal for a steady image and my only solution thus far has been to angle the camera shots. It seems like this issue is solved in some high end (Leica) cameras which have a "bounce flash", it's also solved by unweildy external flash units, neither seems to me the right purchase. Can you recommend a better solution, in a price range that will not aggravate company financial folks? Back in the day, I've used a little Canon A95 (5Mp) for exactly the same reasons you've stated here. I used a cheap table-top tripod for both venues without flash, and obtained better then expected and perfectly acceptable results. The company web server had plenty of available disk space, so I didn't resize the images at all, letting the viewer determine their own preferences for their browser, or downloading the images as necessary. For the circuit boards, I laid them edgewise on the chalk tray of the whiteboard, moved a table close enough for success. Eventually, I advanced to photographing the step-by-step assembly process for a variety of products, producing a visual example of what fits into what and where stuff goes, sometimes overlaying arrows on the image proved helpful. Paste it all up in a e-presentation, post on the company web, and save a bunch of people the aggravation of figuring stuff out on their own. After I retired, the little A95 & tripod was left behind with my successor, and lives on today saving budgets everywhere. -- jer email reply - I am not a 'ten' |
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