I think it was ray that started this reflected light thing. I can not find the link right now. but you can check austrokiwi. I found he was also working with reflected light. I tried the thin foil. but I think our foil here in Canada is a different grade. I did not like the results. I thought a lot about what I wanted and remember a paper we used in the office. I will post picture of it here. I have tried lining a box with this paper. it works great the deeper you take your coin into the box. as you will see I bought a old car jack for a coin mount. it works great 5 dollar at a junk yard. but the deeper you lower your coin the coin gets a creamy look. some might like that. what I have here is nothing fancy but as you can see it works. if you do it this way or raise your coin high. you still can use your jansjo lamps. to get the light you need. as you can see the dark spot is the lens. I think ray can help us over come that. I was reading this morning. where he has noticed this on the Chinese link it showing up on there coins some as well. ok here is the picture you guy would like to see this is nothing fancy. it works for myself. but as you will be able to see it not to hard to do. here is a picture of a quarter I just took with this setup.
here is the images using the ottlite with a macros lens. if I use the rodenstock lens I have no light bars at all. it will light the penny perfectly. I move the light right up tight to the. rodensock lens. sorry I just wanted to keep the macros lens. here is the images. the images are a little different with the Sony. but until light room adds the tethering which will be coming very soon. I will use the canon camera. I am still trying to get it all set. but it works well. I like it
I went to home depot. I purchased one of there small boxes. I lined the inside of the box with. with the text paper shown above. I can shoot with my cellphone. inside the box using 2 jansjo lamps. here is images of the box and some of coins. I can take pictures inside the box with the canon as well. they come out really good. but these are with the cellphone. all I did was crop these images. no editing
coinphotofan first a real light box of that size costs about. 150.00 American . I built that box for 3.00 Canadian. it works just as good. see one side of the box I cut. so I could open the side as well. I hold a piece of this paper to get the look I want then take the image. it allows me to use the 2 ottlites. you do not need to diffuse the ottlamps as well. you see the 2 ottlites are natural day light. they were made for reading. plus if your eyes are light sensitive. the optical people will recommend these for people who read a lot. keeping all sides up lower a silver coin inside that box. the look that comes on your coin is very creamy. it brings out a lustre in silver and nickel. when you slowly lower that car jack. you would see what I mean
Ham1947 if you want to try the ottlites. I would purchase them from Amazon in the usa. they work good but so does the jansjo. hamm every thing I was trying here come from ray. dave. kanga. rmc.austrokiwi.darthmaull and captain fido. ray I think has worked the most with what I am doing him and austrokiwi. if I am just touching the surface of what they did. I think that why it nice to bring up those old threads. there is so much information there. every time I go back and read through them I get some thing else from them. I think that why it important. to keep posting and that way we all learn. my weakness is the camera. but I am learning it. I would like to thank all the above members plus you hamm you also are in there. plus lots more this is what makes this forum so strong. have a great one
LocalCoinGuy here is how I use my cellphone. you see I can do all this the same way with my camera. the box makes it easy for lighting. you will see how the black on the camera has to be covered. so it don't show up in your cellphone images. but you will still get a little bite. there is a new lens coming out for cellphones. that are really going to give any camera a run for its money. this will be for a lot of things. a company in Germany is bring it out. the images are off the scale. if I buy this lens all coin shooting will be done with the cellphone and that lens. ok here's my set up pictures are the easies way to show you. some thing else you should know. if you can find and old enlarger condenser. buy it if you are looking for errors or say doubling or little mint marks that are not correct. you can super magnify your cellphone with that. I made a board mount drop the condenser in the hole in the board. set the cellphone on top of the condenser. if JFK had a fickle I can see it. keep that in mind in the US they are normally about 10 to 20 dollars on ebay. grab one you will see what I mean.
wow that's a good deal. you wont believe what that will do for your cellphone camera. with that you will be able to take large images of tiny errors. if you mount it correctly you will see that you can check coins very fast for errors. with your cellphone or your eyes.
LocalCoinGuy I built this one its easy and it works very good
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this one works really good. the condenser lens is very hard to set your cell. you have to be mounted separately from the condenser. but it works good to
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Thanks Rocky .... I got those lenses for $10 plus shipping .... Going to watch video too ....
Thank you!
Watched Videos, both of them ...... Already paid for lens from ebay and at $15.50 with Ship, I'm good with it ..... Maybe able to make my own based on the ideas seen .....
After I work on, which may take awhile and waiting for lens I'll post some pics of my contraption ....
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