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Taking pinpics (non-porn)

By Pinballerchef

12 years ago


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    #1 12 years ago

    So I see a lot of people posting pics of there pinball machines on here...and they always look like great pics. I tried earlier today and was getting a lot of glare and crappy pics....any tips??

    #2 12 years ago

    I usually have the glass off for pics.. huge difference. Seems simple but..

    #3 12 years ago

    Glass off for video as well

    #4 12 years ago

    How many people saw porn (even though it was "non" porn), and viewed this thread just for that =)

    #5 12 years ago
    Quoted from Atomicboy:

    How many people saw porn (even though it was "non" porn), and viewed this thread just for that =)

    I don't know what you are talking about...

    #6 12 years ago
    Quoted from Atomicboy:

    POSTED 8 MINUTES AGO | #
    How many people saw porn (even though it was "non" porn), and viewed this thread just for that =)

    Gotcha to look on a topic you may have not been interested to look....didn't I

    #7 12 years ago

    Use a tripod, take the glass off, if your taking pics in the dark you can set the exposure a little longer on your camera so the lense stays open longer, giving you more light.

    TRIPOD is key though, trying to take pics in the dark is very hard, as it is near impossible to keep your hands steady, the pics will most likely be blurry..

    #8 12 years ago

    trying to take pics in the dark is very hard, as it is near impossible to keep your hands steady, the pics will most likely be blurry..

    Not with this baby!

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    It does amazing work in low-light situations.

    Edit: Even on AUTO...

    #9 12 years ago

    You can do it without a tripod as well, if you know how to use your camera manually. You will have to adjust your iso settings, aperature, and exposure, but that's alot of fancy camera talk for a pinball site haha...

    Search "taking pictures at night" on google, if you don't have a tripod or a "fancy" camera

    #10 12 years ago
    Quoted from NimblePin:

    It does amazing work in low-light situations.

    I bet it does...

    #11 12 years ago

    Canon Rebels... Any of them.

    #12 12 years ago

    1. Turn your camera flash off. 2. Turn on your cameras macro setting. 3. Set the timer. 4. Place the camera on a steady perch. 5. Start the timer then remove your hands and let the camera do it's thing.

    That's how you get clear high resolution pictures.

    Edit: You need good fresh batteries when using the macro setting on your camera or they will be blurry no matter what...

    #13 12 years ago

    Ok....I will take all this info into consideration. I don't have a tripod so I will have to see what I can do. My pinball is in an unfinished basement and lighting is not the greatest.....I have an older digital canon....or maybe my cell phone can take decent enough pics.

    Thanks all

    #14 12 years ago

    A good option for pinball photographers is the gorillapod. It's very versatile and inexpensive, and perfect for shows, where you can plant it on top of the game or on the adjacent game.

    #15 12 years ago

    I always like to cover the backbox with a dark cloth, to avoid reflections and such from the DMD. Controlling the light is pretty important in pinball photography IMHO.

    #16 12 years ago

    My New Kodak M532 takes some Good Pict's- , but like this shot below taken last-nite,, All light's out , The camera want Focus right.. Tonight i'm Gonna experiment with the camera.. I know it can do better than this.. The Kodak does Film a Killer video tho..

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    #17 12 years ago

    BR, you must have focused on the TZ pin.

    #18 12 years ago

    TRIPOD is key though ...

    Amen, brother!

    If anyone is looking for a nice, reasonably priced tripod, I highly recommend this one I picked up from Amazon ...

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003LTB8GM

    It's light, seems fairly well made, and comes with a convenient bag to store/transport it in.

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    #19 12 years ago

    Has Anyone Ever seen a Rear Gunner Pin ?

    #20 12 years ago
    Quoted from BLACK_ROSE:

    Has Anyone Ever seen a Rear Gunner Pin ?

    That was awesome!

    #21 12 years ago

    In addition to all that has been mentioned here: Good lighting. A flash is light from a single source. It will wash out and flatten everything. You lose the background details and things in the shadows. The more ambient light you can get on the area to be photographed, the better. Then the flash fills in the lighting rather than becoming the primary source of light. It also doesn't hurt to diffuse the flash, although diffusers are usually found on separate flashed that mount on top of a camera.

    #22 12 years ago

    one of the things you can do if you want to get sharp pics is to set the camera on a tripod and on a timer. Black Rose, the movement of the camera in your hands makes the pics looks blurry, but I am sure your camera is capable of taking sharp tack pictures; set the camera on the tripod and the camera will adjust the shutter speed at the best possible setting. your camera has an ISO of 1600. to make it simple, the higher the number of the ISO the more grainy your pics are gonna look. so if you can, set the timer and do not zoom (zooming will increase the ISO on your Kodak) at all, with those 14 megapixels you are gonna get amazing shots.

    Setting a macro mode on your camera will give you even more blurry images, unless you are trying to focus on a small object.

    I have a DSLR and that makes it a lot easier. you set the speed at which you want to take the shot and that lets you take better images in the dark.

    if you have a DSLR buy a polarizer filter, a cheap one but good one should cost about 30 dollars. that will stop about 70 - 80% of possible glare. (expensive filters stop up to 99%)

    if you use flash, you are gonna blow up most the the highlights and details on the background.

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