Collection

LEGOŽ was my favourite toy as a child, and my interest was re-kindled when my wife bought me a set for a joke christmas present, I then bought a small pirate set with a shark to put on my desk at work and things just escalated.....
Currently I have about 100 sets, plus some parts that I had as a child, and some parts I bought secondhand. A total of about 10,000 "parts".
These include some sets from America, including a silver brick. I got a train set at 50% off, to start an interest in trains. Otherwise there is a mixture of themes but biased towards "Town". Plus some Technic. sets including pneumatics, and CD-ROM's.
I read rec.toys.lego, but don't post very often this is the rtl roll-call.

Images

For taking pictures of LEGOŽ I tend to go for the natural light, long exposure method. One of the biggest difficulties is getting enough natural light! I use a Canon SLR camera with a variety of lens, either 50mm standard, 35-70mm or 80-210mm zooms. I use Kodak 200ASA film, and get 5"x7" prints made. I have tried using flash, and multi flash, but I don't like the harsh shadows, (some of the images show a minifig holding a number, this was so I could remember the flash set-up).

I'm not particularly happy with the quality of the images, any hints/tips gratefully recieved.

I'm now using a Hauppauge WinTV card with a video camera for image capture, quality seems to be better. Although I could do with a close-up lens.