Photographing Setups & Processes
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:52 am
I have a problem related to photographing various setups or processes that I am including in posts from time to time.
My digital camera is an Olympus SP-500UZ 6 megapixel camera. Given the lighting in the shop I have to use flash. Using flash defaults the shutter speed to 1/30 second. When I take the requisite closeup to for a crisp image of the details I use a tripod, but this still does not give me a steady enough camera at the 1/30 second shutter speed. When tripping the shutter, I invariably jostle the camera just enough to blur the image and obscure the detail I wanted to show.
It seems that when they were making the camera with a myriad of gizmos and "features" (that I have yet to master all of in 3 years) that they neglected to accomocate a cable release. This means that I must put the camera on time delay and wait for it to take the picture without me touching it. What a PITA!
Is there anybody here who is or knows a camera buff that can tell me how to retrofit a cable release to this camera. This camera cost so much and is so overly complex that I blanch to think what gizmo laden camera I would end up with if I tried to upgrade to one that had a cable release.
With a cable release I might even be able to use even slower shutter speeds and avoid the glare problems that flash gives me.
My digital camera is an Olympus SP-500UZ 6 megapixel camera. Given the lighting in the shop I have to use flash. Using flash defaults the shutter speed to 1/30 second. When I take the requisite closeup to for a crisp image of the details I use a tripod, but this still does not give me a steady enough camera at the 1/30 second shutter speed. When tripping the shutter, I invariably jostle the camera just enough to blur the image and obscure the detail I wanted to show.
It seems that when they were making the camera with a myriad of gizmos and "features" (that I have yet to master all of in 3 years) that they neglected to accomocate a cable release. This means that I must put the camera on time delay and wait for it to take the picture without me touching it. What a PITA!
Is there anybody here who is or knows a camera buff that can tell me how to retrofit a cable release to this camera. This camera cost so much and is so overly complex that I blanch to think what gizmo laden camera I would end up with if I tried to upgrade to one that had a cable release.
With a cable release I might even be able to use even slower shutter speeds and avoid the glare problems that flash gives me.