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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Wendy Evans

Crank the aperture and ditch 'correct' colors – here's my quick guide to photographing old camera gear

Shooting old cameras with a macro lens.

The relentless march of time and technology means that today’s camera tech becomes tomorrow’s obsolete junk. However, give it enough time and that junk will slowly become collectible. When it’s passed from useful to decorative, that’s the time to set your camera collection up for a macro shot.

For this image I’ve set the cameras up on a table with window light in the background. However, the front of the cameras is lit by a tungsten lamp with a color temperature of around 3000K. The camera's auto white balance has catered for this, which means that the highlights on the tops of the cameras have a contrasting blue cast.

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