A cool technique for pics

[Marc Benson]

I had seen where people had used magnifying glasses to take closeups. Tried it with the Olympus Camedia 2.1 mega pixel I have. Old camera so it needs help with real close stuff. Just not enough pixels to work real well. Interesting that when I bought it it cost $1300 and was state of the art. Now you can buy them for $150 that's just blow this thing away!! Anyway here's a pic I took looking through the glass. Sure some can do better without, but for those of you that don't have the newer cameras you can still take some good closeups.

Marc Benson Reviewed by Marc Benson on 09-21-2005. A cool technique for pics I had seen where people had used magnifying glasses to take closeups. Tried it with the Olympus Camedia 2.1 mega pixel I have. Old camera so it needs help with real close stuff. Just not enough pixels to work real well. Interesting that when I bought it it cost $1300 and was state of the art. Now you can buy them for $150 that's just blow this thing away!! Anyway here's a pic I took looking through the glass. Sure some can do better without, but for those of you that don't have the newer Rating: 5

[AngryJohnny]

Yummie !!

lunch anyone?

[SeedKing72]

That bitch is quite BITCHY!

[chonged]

hi Marc B...did u use flash ?

makes me wanna buy a digi cam

[Marc Benson]

hi Marc B...did u use flash ?

makes me wanna buy a digi cam

Nope. I very seldom use flash. With Photoshop you don't need it as you can go in and mess with it and get it lighter if you need to. But without flash I feel it gives you more color saturation. Flash sometimes burns things out. All I did to this was sharpen it once and a little contrast.

The newer digital cameras have the ability to take some really good photos. Very crisp. If I had to suggest one thing it would be to go with as many mega pixels (mp) as possible. 8 mp is common these days. Soon I'll have one! But anything over 4 works pretty well and is still reasonably inexpensive.

[crazyguy]

just a plain old magnifying glass?? My cam is a 2.0mp and it sux on closeups.
thanks for the post!!