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    Question bore photos

    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.
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    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.

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    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.

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    Like he said, let the auto focus work. That's the normal mistake...
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    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.
    Or you could just resort to this.Attachment 68868Attachment 68869

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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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by txbiker View Post
    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.
    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.

    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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