jewellery picture like ring,earring etc...
2006-10-07 02:43:14 · 5 answers · asked by grandmar 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
Buy any type of digital. It's not the camera - it's the setting and the lighting.
If you're in the buying mood, go to Porter's (online) and buy a cheap, small light tent with lights.
If you do things on the cheap - like me - buy some white poster board, a piece of black velvet and two shop lights. Bounce (point) one light from the ceiling and one from either the right or left front/side. Pick either poster board or black velvet for the background depending on which compliments the jewelry.
Turn the flash off your camera, but let it do the rest of the settings (including white balance).
You'll have ebay ready pics in no time.
2006-10-07 02:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can buy ANY camera as long as it provides a macro focus range.
Use your macro setting and experiment. Let's say you have a point and shoot camera with macro and a flash on the camera. You might have to go to a manual mode to do this, but...
Put your ring on a nice background surface. I like to just put it in a ring box. Zoom out at least half-way so that you will be working about a foot away from the ring. Be sure that you get focus confirmation. Shoot a picture USING flash. Check the LCD for the result. If you have overexposed the ring, use the EV adjustment to reduce the exposure. For small items, I often find that I need to reduce the exposure by about 1.0 EV. (That's -1.0 EV.) It is better to have the ring properly exposed and the background underexposed, so just worry about the ring for now. Using a deliberate underexposure will cure the "too shiny" appearance of the stones.
If you know how, you can use either full manual exposure or just Aperture Priority and choose a smaller aperture (larger number) to make the ring show up in better focus.
If you have a DSLR, post your question again stating the kind of camera that you have and the lens that you are using and we will give more details.
If you are doing any image processing at all, such with Photoshop or it's cousins, you can crop the image to 800 pixels by 800 pixels and use Supersize images on eBay. I always use the Picture Pack when I am selling anything of any value.
Check out http://www.members.aol.com/swf08302/heartring.jpg which I did a while ago using a Nikon Coolpix 5400 exactly as described above. I do NOT think this is acceptable, but we decided not to sell the ring anyhow, so I didn't bother to do a better job. It's still better than some I've seen. I don't keep old photos of sold items around, so I don't have much to show you, but at least you know that it's possible to get an acceptable result even without spending huge dollars on your equipment.
The key things to remember are:
-Macro setting
-Zoom out to get about a foot away from your subject
-Use flash
-Try different EV settings and expect that you will end up with a negative EV setting, such as -1.0 EV.
I have one jewelry auction on eBay right now. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200034109949 Super Size the photos and check them out. These were taken with an SLR (D200) and a 60 mm Macro lens (Nikon). They were done EXACTLY as described above. Okay, there are flash highlights, but do they add or detreact from the image?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is not "great photography" and it's a waste of the equipment, but this isn't how I usually use my D200. ;-) My point is, you can use virtually any camera capable of macro settings to get decent pictures of jewelry.
2006-10-07 10:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Digital SLR with a macro lens. I used to try taking pictures of jewelry with a pocket digital camera. It even had a macro setting, but the pictures always came out wrong. The problem was with the flash. The flash to subject distance was too small, so with flash the pictures always came out overexposed. I get my best jewelry pictures with my Nikon D70 and a macro lens.
2006-10-07 07:10:40 · answer #3 · answered by Terisu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should be more concern on the lens. Because one jewelry will be shiny so its reflective of light you'll need a good lens to reduce that ofcourse some cameras like digital camera adjusts to that.
2006-10-07 02:52:22 · answer #4 · answered by eternalvoid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are looking for features, not a particular camera
macro ( to take close picts clearly)
I'd say at least 4 mp if you are looking at digital. but the higer the better ( more details, esp on zooming in)
2006-10-07 02:51:51 · answer #5 · answered by papeche 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋