Digital photography - tongues & ears

[Guest guest]

Just to throw my $0.02 in here. In my opinion, one does not need

expensive equipment to obtain decent pictures of tongues and ears.

 

What you want to look for is a macro ring-light that screws onto the

lens, usually via a threaded adapter. You also need a snoot (funnel-

like white hood that screws on over the light. You also *must* have

an external hot shoe on the camera to sync the light. And yes, shoot

on the " macro " setting on your camera.

 

I have the " Samigon HALO-Light FRL-1 Fluorescent Ring Light " which is

about $109, and available through many stores on the Web. Remember

that this IS fluorescent light and you *must* play with the white

balance settings on the camera. The ring light illuminates evenly,

and the snoot eliminates the variable of extraneous sources of color

such as colored walls.

 

A newer version of that lighting system is the " Nikon Cool Light SL-

1 " macro which uses eight white LED's to illuminate the subject, thus

presumably eliminating the need to compensate for fluorescent light.

This unit appears to be for Nikon cameras only

 

For those of you who are brave enough to craft your own, here's a

link: http://www.brainerror.net/texts_macroring_en.php

 

 

Kay King

[Guest guest]

thanks, kay. i've been tinkering for quite a while with the notion of taking

tongue pics for pt files. like someone here previously, it would beat just

having a written description to go on. i'm glad i've put off buying a cam till i

had some more info. yeah, i know, jane come lately on the techie wagon. but i

have email on my phone, eh. thx again, lynn.

 

[spy9doc] wrote:

Just to throw my $0.02 in here. In my opinion, one does not need

expensive equipment to obtain decent pictures of tongues and ears.

 

What you want to look for is a macro ring-light that screws onto the

lens, usually via a threaded adapter. You also need a snoot (funnel-

like white hood that screws on over the light. You also *must* have

an external hot shoe on the camera to sync the light. And yes, shoot

on the " macro " setting on your camera.

 

I have the " Samigon HALO-Light FRL-1 Fluorescent Ring Light " which is

about $109, and available through many stores on the Web. Remember

that this IS fluorescent light and you *must* play with the white

balance settings on the camera. The ring light illuminates evenly,

and the snoot eliminates the variable of extraneous sources of color

such as colored walls.

 

A newer version of that lighting system is the " Nikon Cool Light SL-

1 " macro which uses eight white LED's to illuminate the subject, thus

presumably eliminating the need to compensate for fluorescent light.

This unit appears to be for Nikon cameras only

 

For those of you who are brave enough to craft your own, here's a

link: http://www.brainerror.net/texts_macroring_en.php

 

 

Kay King