Best Digital Camera For The Buck For Coins

The member payton46 posted here only to post a link to his own site. He has not returned to the forum since posting the link. As a result, I have removed it.

I am confused, I cliked the link before it was removed and got to a rating review, not the poster's personal site. It was the same link reposted above. Unless Payton46 owns the rating service web site.

This thread has a lot of history....so far it seems like the following cameras are good for coin photography:

Olympus C-750
Sony Mavica FD-97 camera ( 2.0 megapixel)
Canon S2 IS. 5MP, 12x optical zoom
Kodak DX3600 2.2 megapixel
nikon coolpix 4300 digital 4 megapixels
powershot SD200
Panasonic FZ7
DiMage Z-2 4.0 Mega pixels
Canon Rebel XTi
Kodak EasyShare Z710
Kodak P850

Im sure I missed a few but, to me, reading through this post, the Panasonic FZ7 seems to take exceptionally good pictures.

I'm very pleased with my Kodak Easyshare DX7590. Here's a couple of pictures taken with this camera, a 1970-D Kennedy and a 1999-s silver proof Kennedy. When I bought this camera a couple of years ago they went for just under $500.



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wow that is one clean silver proof haha. I believe your best outcome in detail would come from an SLR with a very nice set of lens

Looking at a Nikon D-40X 10MP. Has anyone had experience with this camera and photographing coins?

Jim

Richard, did your S2 give any symptoms before it crashed? My S2 has been working flawlessly but now you got me worried.

I went to my local Wolf Camera store and was asking them if they had any insight into coin photography. I was honestly looking for something like a microscope/camera setup. The girl suggested the usual info like, "use the macro setting" and so on. I have a 7.1M pixel Fuji that I am pretty satisfied with which has a "super-macro" setting but when you get that close, the camera blocks a huge majority of the light to the coin and its tough to get good, bright pictures.

Without missing a beat, she says "you know, we have a camera that I was playing with the other day that takes some really great "macro" shots. She took me to a Canon SX100. She began her spiel about this and that, so I whipped out a Lincoln and said "let's see what it can do with this"......Without any special settings like shutterspeed or any of that jazz...just straight macro....she put the cent on the counter with no special lighting, got up to about 1/2" or closer and snapped it....The picture was amazing, good color, good light....It would take me several tries and holding a light just right to copy what she did in just a quick counter attempt. I am now seriously thinking of getting one.

Here is a link to a review of the camera.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0708/0...nsx100is.asp


But, don't take my word on it...go into the camera store with a couple coins in hand that would cause problems to photograph and let them see what they can do.