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Edited by mercdude
10/27/2025 5:33 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Not bad but the details of the pictures just are not "crisp". I don't know if it's over exposed with too bright of light or something else.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Keep testing. I use my iPhone and it takes a bit to find the sweet spot and right lighting. Love to see mercs
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How much cropping are you doing? Is the coin only taking up a small area of the photo? And how much did you re-size them?
Edited by rmpsrpms
10/27/2025 11:17 pm
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How much cropping are you doing? Is the coin only taking up a small area of the photo? And how much did you re-size them? Uncropped:3024 x 4032 pixels @ 300 dpi - roughly 10" x 13" Cropped: 2359 x 2359 pixels @ 300 dpi - roughly 8" x 8" The coins took up the upper half of the overall photo and 6.5 inches of the overall width (ie in the center). I had to move the phone almost all the way forward in the tripod holder clasp to get phone lens(s) over the coin on a desk and I used a small level on the phone to level it. The phone was 6 inches over the desk. Closer was blurry so I tried to get it as close as possible. I had to resize a lot to get them down to ~300k from ~3 mb. Edit: OK except for cropping, I didn't resize the image, I compressed it when exporting to .jpg files in the Gimp. The compression was down to 18%-22% (as close to 300k as possible, each coin was slightly different) and I used the subsampling from 4:4:4 (best quality) down to 4:2:0 (chroma quartered). Edited by mercdude
10/28/2025 12:26 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Did you ever look into a zoom/telephoto lens for your phone?
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Not bad but the details of the pictures just are not "crisp". I don't know if it's over exposed with too bright of light or something else. Marve65, can it be the compression which I had to do to get them down to 300k? Is there another "way?" A zoom/telephoto lens for the iphone? No, I didn't think that was possible. If I get any more gear for photos, it would be a used macro lens ("micro" in Nikon terminology). I already have a good tripod and shutter release and a now ancient D50 but it still works like a new camera after 20 years. Edited by mercdude
10/28/2025 10:07 am
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Keep testing. I use my iPhone and it takes a bit to find the sweet spot and right lighting. Love to see mercs
@Scopru Mercs are the greatest US coins IMHO. There is so much to unpack in such a little coin. |
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You can get a set of lenses for pretty cheap. Did you buy them? Do they work? My feeling is that it would be money thrown away but I have taste in gear beyond my means. I could buy a few very nice mercs for $25 |
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Did you buy them? Do they work? I used to use them on my Galaxy A11 with pretty good results - of course I also edited the photos thru "Pixlr" photo editor. I take a lot of pictures so for $25 it was a no-brainer for me to buy the package. I've since moved on to a Nikon Camera and a magnified coin viewer with photo capabilities. Edited by Marv65
10/28/2025 10:25 pm
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"Budget" rig and iphone 14, is that an oxymoron?
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Maybe not now that the 14 is already three years old.  |
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I barely use my iphone to take pictures, almost all my pictures are taken with a 24 MP full frame Mirrorless camera, and I upload photos to my iphone. Even saying all that you can use your iPhone to change the picture size, it does it automatically. When selecting a photo, select ... options  Select Medium , Large also works sometimes.  And then any picture will come in under the limit.  Edited by hfjacinto
10/29/2025 5:11 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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On a computer, you can use Irfanview, resize to 800 on the shortest size and set a file size that you import any picture also.  Edited by hfjacinto
10/29/2025 5:13 pm
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"Budget" rig and iphone 14, is that an oxymoron? Yes  |
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Posted 10/27/2025 6:45 pm
