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RAW
25th of January 2005 (Tue), 00:06
HI,

I am trying to take photos of all of my CDs, anyone that can give me any sugestions on how to do it best, please do so....Thank you very much.
PhotosGuy
25th of January 2005 (Tue), 06:03
Photos for what use?
robertwgross
25th of January 2005 (Tue), 10:38
I've heard of making a CD archive of my photos, but never a photo archive of my CDs.

---Bob Gross---
RAW
25th of January 2005 (Tue), 23:15
Hahaha...sorry for the confusion....let me explain what I want to do. I have a lot of CDs that diferent friends gave me, I just want to keep a track who gave me what by making photos of the CD covers and save them on my com. , I tried with macro but the flash is bouncing back to hard...thank you in advance for your help.
Scottes
26th of January 2005 (Wed), 03:46
If you have a tripod then just use a long shutter rather than the flash.
malum
26th of January 2005 (Wed), 05:14
or just scan them in
RAW
27th of January 2005 (Thu), 00:24
I am going to keep trying and when I find a way I will write it down...thank you guys...
PhotosGuy
27th of January 2005 (Thu), 06:26
Why take a pic of each one? Put all the cd's from one person together & take one hi-res pic of them. You can always "X" out returned ones & add new ones later.
PacAce
27th of January 2005 (Thu), 07:12
I am going to keep trying and when I find a way I will write it down...thank you guys...

Like Scott said, use a tripod and forego the flash.

But if you have to use the flash, them what you want to do is take it off the hot shoe and use a PC cord or hot shoe extension to connect the flash so that you can position the flash to one side of the camera and 45 degrees to the CD case. Two flashes, one of each side of the camera, would give you a much more even lighting.
RJSorensen
27th of January 2005 (Thu), 21:13
Just get the cover art from Amazon.com . . . like everyone else.