USB Microscope Photographing Coins.

This finely adjustable stand makes life easier. It's well worth the money, believe me...

Sweet, can't wait to see a pic of your new set up !

Hello,

The following URL shows the first foreign gold coin(1982 S Africa 1/4 oz. gold krugerrand) I ever photographed using my USB camera featured in this photography thread:

https://goccf.com/t/156613

A few noteworthy points to address are:

1) The presence of pinwheel luster had to be compromised a bit since I used an overhead cut-out of a white plastic bucket as a diffuser to diminish the excessive glare coming from the coin.

2) The USB camera took only the first two photos(a full obverse and a full reverse) in this thread of the gold krugerrand.

3) After experimenting with several different colors the black velvet background used under this gold coin seemed to work out somewhat better insofar as the resulting photo.

THIS IS, BY FAR, THE BEST MICROSCOPE FOR PHOTOGRAPHING COINS!!








I've had mine for a month now and I absolutely love it! I ordered the ProScope micro mobile with the Apple iPad kit and it is truly amazing! It's perfect for coins because it has its own LED light source around the powerful 20x-80x lens that you can adjust from bright to dim. You just simply clip it onto your iPad over the camera lens and use your fingers to pinch in and out to zoom in and out as usual. They are a little pricey at $149 but to me it's worth every penny!

Here are just some of the great pictures I've been able to take with this device.








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Hhmmm Not quite sure if either of these fit the "USB Microscope" criteria or if they even fall into that category. I mean if that were the case then we could take a Cannon SLR digital camera and do the same thing..

Let's see now, it's not a "microscope", it's not a "camera",(at least thats not its primary function anyway), it does not necessarily have to hook up to a PC via "USB" cord to capture images.

It IS a smart phone, and I already own one of them.. Just like I already own a conventional digital camera..... Don't get me wrong now, I do think they are both cool ways to utilize your IPhone. Thats if you Already own an Iphone. But I'm not sure if everyone is going to go spend a few hundred bucks to upgrade to the latest Iphone for the purpose of using it as a "microscope" camera..

Any other thoughts on this one?

Hi,

The following coin shots of LIBERTY on a 1953 LHC illustrate the usefulness of the previously-discussed adjustable snake arm USB device (anchored to the currently-hidden camera tripod stand) which is capable of handling any USB camera at any angle(within a standard x, y, or z plane of motion) from 1 degree to 359 degrees.

photo A. For this first picture the USB camera took a shot of the coin laying on a flat surface resulting in all of the suspected DDO PUPs being virtually undetectable except for the faintly-showing top left doubling portion of the letter ‘Y' of 'LIBERTY'.

The subsequent photos B., C., D., and E. employ the features of an adjustable clamp capable of anchoring the coin with an alligator clip (w/o scratching it) while rotating the coin within each axis of all three x, y, and z planar orientations.

photo B. This particular photo below taken at a different x-y-z angular location has five areas of interest proceeding from left to right:

1. The letter ‘B' of 'LIBERTY' displays an unknown phenomenon that appears to have created a vertically-orientated and continual rounded depression from top to bottom: possibly PMD.

2. The next set of black arrows within photo B. clearly shows what appears to be doubling on the right lower leg of the letter ‘R' of 'LIBERTY'.

3. The next letter, ‘T' of 'LIBERTY', displays:

i. apparent doubling in the upper vertical portion of this letter marked by the black arrows and

ii. right-sided glare (marked by white arrows) that can often be incorrectly misinterpreted as doubling since this glare disappears when rotating the coin 180 degrees...

4. The final letter ‘Y' of 'LIBERTY' also on photo B. shows similar right-sided glare (also marked by white arrows) that is likewise often misinterpreted as doubling since this glare also disappears when rotating the coin 180 degrees...

photo C. This next artificially-darkened photo, C., above assists to point out the doubling on the top left portion of the last letter, ‘Y', of LIBERTY.

photo D. This next-to-last photo, D., not only shows the verdigris that the initial photos lacked but also the:

1. doubling in the lower right leg of the ‘R' of 'LIBERTY' and

2. doubling in the top right section of the ‘Y' of 'LIBERTY'

photo E. Finally, this last photo, E., contains the clearest picture of the distorted ‘LI' of 'LIBERTY' which is comparable to the same but lighter-colored ‘LI' in the previously-discussed photo B.

I did not take the time to focus in on only the ‘I' of 'LIBERTY' but it appears that two ‘I's are essentially printed on top of each other in the following manner:

1. The bottom ‘I' is thinner with respect to its height above the coin's base surface while

2. The thicker ‘I' (also with respect to its height above the coin's surface) is rotated approximately two to three degrees clockwise from the vertical-orientated and thinner ‘I' below.