Thread: your thoughts on these light tents and what sort of camera under $350

Troy, I have the 80cm cube in your first link (don't have the 40cm cube, bit small me thinks) also came with a white glossy perspex display table and a black glossy perspex top, as well as the coloured back grounds (haven't used them" and the 2 lights.

I have rigged up a third (top) light and that is the setup I use to photograph my pens.

I use a Canon 450D, up till recently with 18-55 kit lens but have just acquired a 60mm macro lens.

Can't help with a recommendation around your budget of $350, paid $300 second hand for the macro lens alone.

Have a look on Ebay for used digital SLRs, the older Canon and Nikon models would do what you want, but perhaps a bit over your budget.

eg:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Canon-EOS...item415fa50a61

I have built two light tents for my own use and have used light tents in a studio environment.

For what you are envisaging, photographing small objects, I would say they are quite reasonable, in fact quite cheap, considering.

This seems to be designed to be used on a table top, well at least I would, especially as the lighting tripods are quite small height wise.

Mick.

If you are talking really good macro, you are going to spend more than $350 on the lens alone (a really good macro lens will set you back $1,200 - $2,500ish).

Most digital cams can do a reasonable macro shot; common light tent limitations are generally due to lack of a tripod and use of 'automatic' as the camera setting.

A tripod means you can run a slow shutter speed without blurring which means you have better control over the aperture - the aperture will affect what is/is not in focus; not using the auto setting means you can tweak exposures for the object and not have the camera trying to expose a large white background to an 18% grey.

dont want super macro shots just better than basic digital camera
i found this one for 366
what do you guys think for the price ? Fujifilm Finepix S4000 14MP Digital Still Camera | Digital Cameras, Digital Still Cameras : JB HI-FI

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