Very nice to be appreciated! On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Had a bit of a surprise enablement today, so I thought I would share > the good news. My employers own three injection molding (plastics) > factories and do work for some rather large corporations. The molds > for the injection molding machines are often huge and work under high > temperatures and pressures. Defects can develop in the mold that > require repair via precision machining. Since the customer usually > owns the mold, one has to document what needs to be done. Recently, > they have been asking me to take documentary photos of the molds and > macro images of the small defects, cracks etc. It is a highly > reflective surface and lighting can be a pain, particularly when you > lens is only a few inches from what you are trying to photograph. > > I was told today that my images were VERY helpful in a big meeting > they had with an automaker regarding some of their tooling. The > Company President heard about that and when we ran into each other > today I explained that I thought that a ring light might be helpful in > effectively removing shadows and getting even better results. > > I was willing to try one of the cheap LED ring lights and so when he > asked me "how much" I said $50-75. He said "do it" and gave me his > AmEx card. Then, as I was walking away, he chased me down and said > something like "Is that the one you really want?" I explained that > true ring flash units were more powerful, but more money - but that is > what I would get if I were spending my own money. I quoted him around > $350. He said "get that then". > > Since I'm using a Sigma EX 28mm f1.8 Macro that has a 77mm filter > size, there was really only one unit (that I found) that had that > large a hole in the donut: Sigma EM-140 DG for Pentax. So I've got one > on the way, along with a 77mm adapter (it only comes with 55mm & 58mm, > I believe). The 55mm will work on my Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 Macro, and > the 77mm will work with the Sigma. > > He originally bought me my Metz 58 AF-1 also, so all of my on-camera > flash enablement has come thanks to him. > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
