I found a serious close-up camera last weekend at a yard sale. It's a Ricoh 35mm (nothing special there) with a 2x macro and a close-up lens, plus a neat flash that can fire from a small box perched on top of the lens (where the front sight on a rifle would be) or from a ring around the end of the lens. I've put one roll of film through it (not digitized yet so no samples yet, sorry). The field of focus is very, very short- at 10" from lens to subject I can lost focus with an inch of camera movement or less. I'll be investing in a tripod next. Does anyone else have experience with this kind of setup? I picked it up on a whim- it was cheap and intriguing.
Sounds like you got a great camera for taking layout and model pics with. You can take your print film to be developed at Wal-Mart and get both prints and a CD-Rom with your pics on it. The CD adds like a dollar. But it sure beats having to scan all the pics, quicker and simpler!! You can also write in the specail instruction section to have the CD at high resolution. They are about the sixe of 1200x 1600 or so if you do that. Other-wise they are kinda small.
And here's the first pic of the camera- sorry, my digital is rather on the cheap side. I'll scan a few of the pictures tonight to show what it can do in my skill-free hands. I need to find a decent layout in central New Hampshire just so that I can try this out!
Looks like a commercial setup. Professional type stuff. Must have cost a small fortune when new! mg: :thumbs_up: Boxcab E50
I'll admit that I was happy the yard-sale-guy didn't know much about photgraphy I have a camera but no layout. I've posted a hopeful note asking if somebody near me has a layout that I can photograph... I know that there was a nice club with a simply amazing cliff-cut HO run but I can't for the life of me remember the name, and Google has so far been unhelpful.
BH, It's possible you are thinking of the RPI student layout in Troy, NY. The students have created some fantastic scenery representing northeastern New York and northwestern New England landscapes. In fact Corey Lynch '05, a long time TB member, was the Student President for his last few years at RPI.
I've seen that one on the web- but the one I remember is just a small club in a small town south of Concord NH. The cliff cut wasn't even live rail, they didn't have room to put it up but showed it to me where it languished under a tarp (and even there it looked incredible)
