taking pictures in the operating room

all,

i have a d70 that i would like to use for taking pictures in the
operating room. i initially thought that i would like to use a macro
lens for super impressive, huge photos of gnarly brain tumors, but
after playing with the 60mm and 105mm macro lenses i decided a) it's
probably overkill and b) i need to get too close to the sterile field
to take advantage of the large representation of the picture.

here are the criteria:
1. the surface of the brain is wet and often very shiny. most surgeons
use point and shoot cameras and the built-in flash usually causes
reflection from the surface
2. we are sometimes operating in little, poorly lit holes. we usually
turn the OR lights away from the field since they're so bright.

i am considering using a 50mm 1.4 fixed lens potentially with a ring
light.

anyone have any thoughts on this?

--b

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all,

i have a d70 that i would like to use for taking pictures in the
operating room. i initially thought that i would like to use a macro
lens for super impressive, huge photos of gnarly brain tumors, but
after playing with the 60mm and 105mm macro lenses i decided a) it's
probably overkill and b) i need to get too close to the sterile field
to take advantage of the large representation of the picture.

here are the criteria:
1. the surface of the brain is wet and often very shiny. most surgeons
use point and shoot cameras and the built-in flash usually causes
reflection from the surface
2. we are sometimes operating in little, poorly lit holes. we usually
turn the OR lights away from the field since they're so bright.

i am considering using a 50mm 1.4 fixed lens potentially with a ring
light.

anyone have any thoughts on this?

--b


Pop the brain out and put it in a flash tent..... sorry couldn't resist
:-((((

wrote:
all,

i have a d70 that i would like to use for taking pictures in the
operating room. i initially thought that i would like to use a macro
lens for super impressive, huge photos of gnarly brain tumors, but
after playing with the 60mm and 105mm macro lenses i decided a) it's
probably overkill and b) i need to get too close to the sterile field
to take advantage of the large representation of the picture.

here are the criteria:
1. the surface of the brain is wet and often very shiny. most surgeons
use point and shoot cameras and the built-in flash usually causes
reflection from the surface
2. we are sometimes operating in little, poorly lit holes. we usually
turn the OR lights away from the field since they're so bright.

i am considering using a 50mm 1.4 fixed lens potentially with a ring
light.

anyone have any thoughts on this?




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all,

here are the criteria:
1. the surface of the brain is wet and often very shiny. most surgeons
use point and shoot cameras and the built-in flash usually causes
reflection from the surface
2. we are sometimes operating in little, poorly lit holes. we usually
turn the OR lights away from the field since they're so bright.

i am considering using a 50mm 1.4 fixed lens potentially with a ring
light.

anyone have any thoughts on this?

Suggest you put a linear polariser on your light source, and a circular
polariser on your lens. Adjust the polariser on your lens to reduce
reflections.
Linear polarising film is available in sheets - cut it to shape to fit your
ringlight. (You'll lose several stops of light with the polars.)

(From 25 years ago, I still remember the amazement when I attended the UK's
premier eye hospital with self portraits of my swollen eye (taken with the
specialist Polaroid macro camera) - the medic appeared to not know how good
Polaroid could be.)

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK

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all,

i have a d70 that i would like to use for taking pictures in the
operating room. i initially thought that i would like to use a macro
lens for super impressive, huge photos of gnarly brain tumors, but
after playing with the 60mm and 105mm macro lenses i decided a) it's
probably overkill and b) i need to get too close to the sterile field
to take advantage of the large representation of the picture.

here are the criteria:
1. the surface of the brain is wet and often very shiny. most surgeons
use point and shoot cameras and the built-in flash usually causes
reflection from the surface
2. we are sometimes operating in little, poorly lit holes. we usually
turn the OR lights away from the field since they're so bright.

i am considering using a 50mm 1.4 fixed lens potentially with a ring
light.

anyone have any thoughts on this?

--b


First,
Please wash your camera well, using soap liberally.
Heck, would it be dandy to catch a microbe ...
Second,
Would you fiddle around the brain or the D70?
To tell you the truth, I'd rather pass on theat one ;-)
Marcel

Interesting point on bringing a dirty Nikon in to an operating room. (go
ahead and flame, I'm wearing my asbestos knickers!) I wonder if sterilizing
your camera in an ethylene gas chamber (assuming your hospital has one)
would have any ill effects on the hardware?

LabRat

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all,

i have a d70 that i would like to use for taking pictures in the
operating room. i initially thought that i would like to use a macro
lens for super impressive, huge photos of gnarly brain tumors, but
after playing with the 60mm and 105mm macro lenses i decided a) it's
probably overkill and b) i need to get too close to the sterile field
to take advantage of the large representation of the picture.

here are the criteria:
1. the surface of the brain is wet and often very shiny. most surgeons
use point and shoot cameras and the built-in flash usually causes
reflection from the surface
2. we are sometimes operating in little, poorly lit holes. we usually
turn the OR lights away from the field since they're so bright.

i am considering using a 50mm 1.4 fixed lens potentially with a ring
light.

anyone have any thoughts on this?

--b


First,
Please wash your camera well, using soap liberally.
Heck, would it be dandy to catch a microbe ...
Second,
Would you fiddle around the brain or the D70?
To tell you the truth, I'd rather pass on theat one ;-)
Marcel

FWIW, I did a Parade Magazine feature (Yes, that Sunday Supplement thing)
in an operating room. It was featured on their cover. One need only stand
outside the sterile field. The OR folks won't let you screw up the
situation.

Let the rest of these impressionistic sit-on-their-ass buttheads speculate
all they like.

Go for it.

Ewww. My first suggestion, if you are mucking around with someone's
brain, it to pay attention to what you are doing and take travelogue
shots somewhere else. Seems like your hospital is paying too much
attention to bling if its "get your skull cracked open and get a
souvenier picture".

My second suggestion is to get a scuba diving cover for it and dip the
camera in bleach or whatever before you go into the operating room.

This sort of sounds like one of those Holiday Inn Express commercials
-- I'm not really a surgeon but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last
night ....

My third suggestion is to not take any of my advice because if I answer
it wrong, you'll kill somebody. I'm too much of a smart-ass for that.

Finally, as for most things, www.bhphotovideo.com Call them and ask.
They're pretty good on equipment. Probably not the first, "I just
removed a brain and now I need to photograph it" question they got this
week.

BTW, you didn't leave the brain laying around somewhere while you're
waiting for an answer, did you?

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i am considering using a 50mm 1.4 fixed lens potentially with a ring
light.

anyone have any thoughts on this?

Welll... Dentistry isn't brain surgery, but my dad used to use a 55mm
micro-nikkor with a ring flash, mounted on a Nikormat FM2, to take picures
in the tight confines of a person's mouth... Moist, reflective environment
and all that, tight confines... The pictures I've seen turned out pretty
well.

It'd be different in an operating room... More stringent sterility issues
with brain surgery, I'd assume. I think there's a minimum distance from the
patient that you'd have to be in order to avoid contamination, but you're
the one working in the OR, not me, so I could be wrong on that point.

Would a 70-300mm zoom lens with macro capability work for what you're trying
to do? It'd give you the option of a bunch of levels of magnification,
though up close and personal with a small hole might not be possible...
Stand a distance away, zoom in to maximum magnification (say 300mm) and
shoot that way?

wrote:
all,

i have a d70 that i would like to use for taking pictures in the
operating room. i initially thought that i would like to use a macro
lens for super impressive, huge photos of gnarly brain tumors, but
after playing with the 60mm and 105mm macro lenses i decided a) it's
probably overkill and b) i need to get too close to the sterile field
to take advantage of the large representation of the picture.

here are the criteria:
1. the surface of the brain is wet and often very shiny. most surgeons
use point and shoot cameras and the built-in flash usually causes
reflection from the surface
2. we are sometimes operating in little, poorly lit holes. we usually
turn the OR lights away from the field since they're so bright.

i am considering using a 50mm 1.4 fixed lens potentially with a ring
light.

anyone have any thoughts on this?

--b

I seem to recall that all operations require UV filters on all lights to
prevent tissue burn. Don't forget that the flash puts out UV!!
gr