I am interested in getting good photos showing the bore condition. I have seen some photos that do this very well. Any tips will be appreciated. :help:
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I am interested in getting good photos showing the bore condition. I have seen some photos that do this very well. Any tips will be appreciated. :help:
A good start is don't shove a bore light into the action and try to take a picture. The glare will wash out any detail. Take a piece of white paper and put that into the action and reflect light off of that up the barrel. Auto focus also contributes to problems.
I know from experience the bore light does not work so I'll try the white paper trick and hope it works. At least with digital you know immediately if you have a good shot or not.
Like he said, let the auto focus work. That's the normal mistake...
The trick is to focus on something past the bore.
If you try to focus on the lands, all you get is a couple of inches of barrel.
I always place the barrel so there is a distant object behind it, i.e. a tree branch, focus through the barrel on the branch and the rifleing will be clear.
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Have to agree with Muffet here... I have found positioning the bore so you can see blue sky out the other end usually works. I have put the camera as far as a foot behind the barrel and make sure it is focused on the sky. Naturally a decent camera in a tripod help too.
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I just use a small digital...and let it auto focus. Not an expensive single reflex, I don't use that any more.
Viewing a bore from outside of the barrel can be very misleading. What looks like a squeaky clean bore while looking down the length of the barrel can hide a lot of different conditions. A good borescope that can give you a view of the bore perpendicular to it's length can be a real eye opener. My solution for getting good pictures was finding a good used CCTV camera on ebay for cheap, and connecting it to my notebook computer with a USB video adapter which was very inexpensive as well. I had to make my own adapters for coupling the camera to the borescope, but it isn't rocket surgery. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by txbiker
I just used a plain 1/4" nut from the hardware store for testing purposes. The USB video adapter allows me to record video as well. The real expense is the borescope, but if you do a fair amount of working with firearms you will find it is a worthwhile investment. IMHO.
The real benefit of all of this is that you can capture all of your images as high resolution j-peg images and store them / email them from your computer easily.
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