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Richard, the first 1881 you presented in my Morgan thread is just about as good as it gets. You won't see an improvement with much of any equipment.
What you will see improved is defined by your second coin, the one with mint luster. There is sufficient reflected light, and contrast, in such a coin that the superior optics of a dedicated lens overwhelm the capabilities of your Sony's lens, which has to be a jack-of-all-trades compromise.
There. I just did a whole post without saying "Canon."
Oops.
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Pillar of the Community
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Ok Just ordered the camera lens combo and cleared out my bank account in doing so.
Will post some pics taken with my new toy when it arrives and I've worked out what all the knobs and dodads do..
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Forum Dad
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You need to bring Dave to your house like I did to give you the crash course.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If he would take payment in Steaks chili then he is more than welcome...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think I got a deal paid $702 for a EOS Rebel T2i with EF-S 18-55IS and $599 for the 100mm 2.8 macro
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United States
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That's about right for the macro lens, and a *stupid* good price for the T2i. $700 is the going rate for the body only, no lens.
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Forum Dad
United States
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I hope your happy with it Richard. I think the 18MP may be a bit much. Mine's 10MP (with the 100mm lens) and I take standard coin shots on the lowest resolution setting because the highest one effects image editing speed on my box. And keep in mind that my box is a complete beast, an I7, 8 core, with 24GB of ram. Here's one of the ancients I photographed yesterday on the lowest setting....  1936x1288 out of the camera. These 2 photos were taken from 18" away. Notice that the extreme differences in height of this ancient makes it impossible to focus all points at the same time from even a foot and a half away. |
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Bobby, stop down to f/13 or less (greater numerically), run it back up to full megapixels and throw enough light on it to get your exposure to 1/100 or faster at those settings. Depth of field increases with larger aperture numbers, and more pixels means more data points for the sharpening algorithm. And use the Gimp. On my pathetic 1.8Ghz box, only rotating a 12MP, 5Mb image is slow - all the rest is nearly instantaneous. And yes, your box is a beast.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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My laptop is i7 with 16 gig of ram so I don't think I'll have too much trouble I also use Gimp. It handles the 35 meg raw images from my Sony without issues. It helps to have 2 gigs onboard the graphics card as well. My new home machine is only I5 but its decked out on Graphics, memory, SSHD and scores 7.1 on the windows experience index. Slightly better than my higher spec laptop.
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Forum Dad
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Will give it a try Dave. This is the stuff you're gonna love Richard....  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 Time to upgrade my gear. Very nice pictures Bobby. |
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Pillar of the Community
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That's what I'm looking for It will make finding varieties so much easier.
Lens arrives Friday and Camera Arrives Saturday...
First Pics Sunday I hope.
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Set up the ZoomBrowser software first, Richard. You can run the whole shoot from the keyboard. It will spoil you for anything else.
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Forum Dad
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Set up the ZoomBrowser software first, Richard. You can run the whole shoot from the keyboard. It will spoil you for anything else. You betcha. No touchy the camera for nuttin'. As you see Dave, I found the Live View zoom and focus controls.  |
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Rats. You found my secret weapons. I might as well retire. |
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