Helpful Hints

Magnification: Use the focus adjustmenttment toto set the magnification before framingg andand exposing each photograph.

Focus: Adjust focus by moving in andand outout with the camera, not by turning the cameracamera focus ring.

Helpful Hints

Framing: Keep the camera perpendicularicular toto the frontal plane of the patient's facee forfor allall views.

Retraction: Always keep retractors,, mirrors, lips, cheeks, etc. out of the bordersborders of the pictures.

Helpful Hints

Flash Location:

1. For ring lights, dual flash, or fixed flashsh cameras, no adjustment is necessary.

2. For single point rotating bracket cameras:ras:

Full face: flash at 12 o'clock . Close-up smile: flash at 3 or 9 o'clockk ..

Retracted frontal view: flash at 3 or 99 o'clocko'clock .. Any retracted lateral : flash toward anteriornterior .. Any mirror view: flash toward mirrorr

Helpful Hints

Exposure (general guidelines):

portrait: f/8 – f/11

retracted upper/lower arches (Viewss 55 && 6):6): f/16 – f/22

all closer views: f/22 – f/32