[Rockhounds] achieving depth of field w digicam?

[Tim Jokela Jr.]

Interesting replies, thanks all. Sorry for the confusion, I meant stacking 
instead of stitching.

My interest is in shooting small things that are highly equant, as deep as 
they are wide, eg. say you want to see the front and the side of an acorn, 
all nice and sharp.

I'm not up on the latest technology so was hoping somebody had looked into 
the subject in depth... ha, bad pun.

T

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From: "J Bryan Kramer" <codeburner at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] achieving depth of field w digicam?


> That should just be a lighting problem. Grazing light should add some 
> shadow
> relief to the fossils. I don't understand why you would need to stitch 
> shots
> together unless you are shooting a plate of fossils that is too large to 
> fit
> in the lens field of view. If you have a group of shots that you want to
> stitch get with me off list and I can do some for you since I do have that
> expensive CS3 software. There is freeware stitching software, you pay in
> usability tho.
>
> BK
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Tim Jokela Jr. <tjokela at execulink.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This one goes out to the digital photography gurus out there.
>>
>> I was talking to a buddy last night about macrophotography of small
>> fossils, 1-3cm stuff, and how capturing any depth of field continues to 
>> be
>> the major challenge. He suggested three ways of doing it: buy the $25,000
>> camera system made to do the job, take the picture 3 meters away from the
>> specimen and blow up the image, or take multiple shots, focusing on
>> different areas, and stitch them together with Helicon, Combine-Z, or the
>> expensive new version of PhotoShop.
>>
>> All are basically horrible options.
>>
>> So, is there anything new and interesting in the world of digital
>> photography that's giving depth of field to macrophotography in a simple,
>> affordable manner? (My weapon of choice atm is a Canon Digital Rebel with 
>> a
>> 50mm macro lens.)
>>
>> Many thanks for any info!
>>
>> Tim Jokela Jr., tjokela at execulink.com
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>>
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