lund329 wrote:Hey to Hakaman...
Sorry to hear about your issue and this doesn't address it but how did you take those pictures of the rifling of your bore? Did you just use a point and shoot digital camera set on macro? I'm impressed on how they came out in order to show us... Good luck on your M&P pistola BTW.
The way I do it may be different then the way they others do it. First, in order to take a picture of anything, it must be illuminated somehow. Either by a flash(not in this case, though), or by some ambient light. With these photos, I held the barrel end up to a light source(bulb) with one hand, and took the picture with my point and shoot camera with my other hand. I had the camera set on "macro" (close in shots), and had to have a very steady hand at just the right distance. I find the "flash" to be way to overwhelming for situations like this, and use other sources of light to illuminate the subject. The pictures actually came out better then what I thought was possible with a p&s camera, though it took several attempts to get a satisfying photo. Then comes photo finishing with "Windows Office Picture Manager" where you can crop, and color finish as you please. There are several programs that photo finish for you, many included with your computor. I have an account with "Photo Bucket" as well, and they provide photo finishing in their program. You can add text to a photo, as you see I have done, and do many corrections to your photos also. It all seems a little complex at first, but it really isn't. It is a lot of "trial and error". Even professional photographers will say, they take a thousand photos to get the "one" they like.
Thanks lund, good luck, Haka
