Shaun:

Thanks for the first photos, and I agree with all that Jim wrote, in terms of the difficulty of photographing these watches. I tried three or four rolls of film (with a Nikon F3), and quickly concluded that digital was the way to go on these.

I am guessing that only a true professional [ hello, Bruce!! ] can get consistently good results on film. The rest of us will do better on digital . . . even an inexpensive, previous-generation digital.

Still, you are off to an excellent start, so stick with the film if you are so inclined (and enjoy all those trips to the store to have them processed, buy film, etc.).

Cheers,

Jeff

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: Shaun,
: Glad you took the first baby step at watch
: photography and joined the club of
: fustrating subject matter. Lighting, quality
: of macro lens, watch positioning,
: composition, depth of field, remembering to
: wipe off the fingerprints, set the hands to
: not hide the dial info, reflections, digital
: processing, web hosting and linking, HTML
: text for posting, and on and on.
: But it is a great learning curve to accomplish
: so keep it up. If you want to start down the
: digital road, I would recommend the Nikon
: Coolpix 995 used on ebay. It really can do
: awesome macros and double a good all around
: camera at a very reasonable price.