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<p>[QUOTE="Nathan B., post: 7967960, member: 112852"][ATTACH=full]1381770[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Just playing around again. The image above is a reduced size of a snip of two files together that were taken with my Micro Four Thirds camera (with a self-timer) on a dirt-cheap tripod. The actual files look quite excellent (at least to me) in terms of sharpness--considerably better than the reduced snip above. But I think I need to work on the rest of the image--starting with understanding aperture and shutter speed(!), and how varying these will affect my photo. In addition, white balance is obviously off (the coin was sitting on a white piece of paper). </p><p><br /></p><p>In general, I found that when I used a flash, the resulting image was much sharper than images taken without the flash. As per Orielensis's suggestion, I ordered a pair of extension tubes. As per TIF's suggestion and others, I'm going to get a piece of velvet, a slim dowel, and some silicon or putty or something, and see what that can do for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nathan B., post: 7967960, member: 112852"][ATTACH=full]1381770[/ATTACH] Just playing around again. The image above is a reduced size of a snip of two files together that were taken with my Micro Four Thirds camera (with a self-timer) on a dirt-cheap tripod. The actual files look quite excellent (at least to me) in terms of sharpness--considerably better than the reduced snip above. But I think I need to work on the rest of the image--starting with understanding aperture and shutter speed(!), and how varying these will affect my photo. In addition, white balance is obviously off (the coin was sitting on a white piece of paper). In general, I found that when I used a flash, the resulting image was much sharper than images taken without the flash. As per Orielensis's suggestion, I ordered a pair of extension tubes. As per TIF's suggestion and others, I'm going to get a piece of velvet, a slim dowel, and some silicon or putty or something, and see what that can do for me.[/QUOTE]
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