topic Re: Marco Photography in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Marco Photography

HNM — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:26:37 GMT

Good Day,

I have a Canon Rebel T6 18-55mm lens. I need to shoot a written diary book. What are the best settings to do this?

Thanks

Re: Marco Photography

kvbarkley — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:30:19 GMT

We don't know since we know nothing about your lighting.

Luckily a book will sit still for you all day. Experiment, experiment, experiment.

Re: Marco Photography

HNM — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:13:53 GMT

Thanks. You are right I should have mentioned. I will be shooting with daylight/sunny. I will experient.

Regards,

Marco

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shadowsports — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:32:15 GMT

Cameras can work well in a pinch, but a "CZUR ET16 Plus" will give you professional results. Good luck whichever direction you decide to go.

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wq9nsc — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:31:57 GMT

A continuous light such as even the small LED worklights are an excellent source for this type of work so that you will have complete control of lighting. If you have a tripod, it will make things much easier to do properly because you need to keep the page surface as parallel to the image sensor plane as possible when doing macro work like this and of course the tripod provides much needed stability and convenience.

I am not familiar with the Rebel but depending upon what sort of self timer it may have built in, this can be useful to avoid camera shake from depressing the camera button (important if you have a lighter duty tripod) and can allow for fast workflow by flipping diary pages during the countdown timer period.

Rodger

Re: Marco Photography

ebiggs1 — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:41:08 GMT

"I need to shoot a written diary book. What are the best settings to do this?"

A document scanner! It will do a far better job than your camera kit.

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HNM — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:30:38 GMT

Not if you are in the jungle....

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kvbarkley — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:18:20 GMT

If you are in the jungle, and a scanner is the best tool for the job, you make it work

In a more constructive vein, generally a macro lens works best for these sorts of tasks.

Re: Marco Photography

ebiggs1 — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:38:40 GMT

"Not if you are in the jungle...."

No matter where you are a document scanner will do a better job on documents than you camera kit. If all you want, in a jungle or a city, is jpg pictures of your diary, use your cell phone.