Camera for KEN - 24hourcampfire

trying to keep this in the proper area.
 as i stated in the rifle rafle thread
 close ups of small objects, like ammo, case heads , ect
 require a decent camera and a flash called a ring flash.
 this keeps you from gitting funny shadows will be glad to give my limited knologe on this
 
 here is a (bad) example of what i mean.
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as an extra can aneone I D this its yougosalv 7.62X54R but with a very light alumnium tip projectile
 perk

lewis,
 
 That is a new one on me. Very interesting. I could not venture a guess to it's purpose............

not a clue here,
 
 my nikon 995 allows for really close pics, I sent ken a few pics of a rifle and you could read the barrel markings on them easily (well I could before i had to reduce them in size)
 
 like I said before I don't know much bout cameras but I'm sure impressed with mine. I have posted a few pics lately by using my camera soo.....

Lewis, I'm guessing this is a projectile designed to be stabilized with self-contained fins as opposed to rifling the bore. So the gun would be a smoothbore, with the potential for MUCH more speed.
 
 Think about it -- why explode a bullet down a too-small hole merely to impart spin?
 
 Dave Petzal wrote about this idea in F&S back in 98 or 99. Tank cannons are designed this way to achieve the speed they need, he said.
 
 So what's the answer?
 
 Jeff

I guess i should have put something in for scale.
 This as a 30/06 size round used in the Mosen-Nagant Rifle. or Medium soviet Machiene gun.
 What it is....Heck we dont know. that encludes me, the british army , the finnish army and a host of others. and the Yougo army vets we have around here. Some one knows.
 I have also found similer rounds in 7.62X39 (SKS, AK-47)
 Thay aint tracer or Ap as far as we can tell.
 
 
 About the CAMERA..
 I use the Dimage 7. love it for the most part.
 the advantage is it can be set to full manual, that is i select all the settings and focus by hand.
 I just didnt want Ken to buy a $100 Digi and then have poor results, allthough I beleve Ken knows that you get what you pay for. In guns or cameras.

"I use the Dimage 7. love it for the most part.'
 
 That's the one I'm after. A couple of my writer friends now shoot all their stuff on Dimage 7s and send their photos in as digital files. Take a look, for example, at the two-page lead photo in Lermayer's piece on Hevi-Shot in the current issue of Guns & Ammo. That, he tells me, is a digital Dimage 7 photo that he sent in as a JPEG file on a read-write CD.
 
 I've been waiting -- for years, now -- for digital resolution to go up and for prices to go come down, and this new Minolta is saying to me, "Here I am -- the reward for your patience."

got mine at best buy in December for $900
 so the price is down.
 "for the most part"
 is not realy fair..i love it. but in "full auto" mode it has some limits..Low light seems to freak it out. but i just shot a lot of photos with it in a cave here when , no foolin, the power went out all over the country and im down in this hole with a guide who brought no light with him. Course, now I did so we continued the tour with my mag light. and i shot a lot of photos after that.
 remember that close ups may require a attachment lense there are some new ones out there.
 but you can see my effort above and it aint to bad.
 
 Now if i only knew what that round was for..........
 
 perk

Lewis, Ken,
 
 I know less than nothing about digital photagraphy. I still prefer 35mm. But your photo of the cartridges intrigued me. Talking to others and searching the internet. I found that almost any digital camera that has support for a macro distance of 10cm or less will probably do the job and this applies to about 1/3 of the cameras available on the market today. Most are pretty expensive. But I kind of like the Nikon Coolpix 5000, or the Minloita Dimage7i. Both are under $1000. As such you have a wide choice and you can define some other decision factors. Such as the accessories that are available to provide support for Macro shots.
 I was sent these links. I thought you all might be interested in. Looks like a good solution for lighting those close-ups.
 
 Phil
 
 http://bermangraphics.com/coolpix/clouddome.htm
 
 http://www.clouddome.com/html/whatis.html

Lewis send mean email my puter crashed I need your email again