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By no means can I claim any expertise in this field, but I did some experimenting with coin photography maybe 10-12 years ago combining the "Super High Quality" and "Super Macro" settings on my dinky little Olympus 4-mp non-SLR digital camera. Certainly not "extreme," but it taught me a few things. What I learned was that the only way I could avoid the problem of "shutter motion" and get a sharp, clear shot of anything was to use the timer function. The 10-second delay always proved long enough to calm everything down. Of course, for starters, I had the camera well-fastened to a proper copy stand...but the timer was the key. My little ship here was captured that way from the whitecaps next to the Eddystone Light on my 25mm Devonshire shilling (Dalton 1,1811-12). To illustrate scale, I'll post the whole token below the ship.  
I never pay too much for my tokens...but every now and then I may buy one a little too soon.
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Here is one I did a simpke focus stack and then put it through Helicon Focus and it turned out not to bad. I was just practicing only about 5 shots combined but it ended up being 37 Megabytes and had to bring it down less than 300 Killabites. Its actually smaller but I do not think it will matter. Crazy here it is. Ohhh wait I see a small mistake on the top I guess back to the drawing board. Tomorrow  Edited by Gluggo
04/12/2021 10:08 pm
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Here is another one I did. Its a Silver art piece about 3/8" to 1/2" thick at 4.5 Ounce of Silver so lots of Depth. A Moos and Wolfe piece. Just about 10 shots taken but I had to rotate about 1/2 of them 180 degrees. Not sure why that is happening since all the shots are in sequence just using the Cognisys rail to move the camera along. Strange but looks like it work. Just playing around figured I should figure out some of this stuff I bought! Then I had to take it from a TIFF to JPG but it made it much smaller. Not that it matters cause I still have to take it to 300KB from 2 MB. But you can see from the line steps seems all in focus. This Helicon really is smooth and super easy to use if I can do it anybody can.  |
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Nicely done G! And you've got some cool stuff, very eclectic and photogenic.
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Gluggo - looking good! To stop the rotating be sure your auto rotate is off in the camera settings. That may be switching you up as it moves a bit for the shots and rotating in camera. I always leave mine off.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1982, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS) Member in good standing, 2˘ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Westcoin thank you for that tip. I will look through my setting and verify if it on or off. Sounds like the culprit!
Update managed to find the Auto rotate on the camera and set to off and it worked no more rotation unless I want it. I went ahead and did a test shot and it work perfectly.
Thank you!
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04/18/2021 4:32 pm
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Okay using 2 different lights which one you like better. !st one is regular light set up  |
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Okay using 2 different lights which one you like better. 2nd one is a extra light set up think its a halogen with about 120 small bulbs. I sort of like the extra blue. As I hold it next to the picture in hand it has about the same blue showing. hmmm These were both rendered about 12 shots and this time NO reversed shots due to that helpful tip! Thank You.  Edited by Gluggo
04/19/2021 9:27 pm
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It's not a good idea to mix lights as it's impossible to white balance. Now, if you are looking to do an artistic rendering, ie if you want the blue to show up more, rather than being an "accurate" color, then no problem with the different light. But every situation is going to be different.
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Sounds like good advice Ray. I was just trying to bring out the Blue in this case. I have no idea what type of light that is more of a panel type. In fact I have a whole box of different light type bulbs wanted to play around. I don't know why but I just like wild colors since this is a chunk of 2 ounce silver from Monarch figures I would do a little test. Have a great night Ray gotta go back to work on the night shift for a bit!
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6.7 Troy Oz Toned Slot Bar Hand poured by Bullion Forge Shot on a Cannon D5 Mark IV. Cannon Macro Lens 100mm 1:2.8 L IS Stackshot 3X COGNISYS 106 sHOTS Helicon Focus used for Rendering Camera Stand by Rmpsrpms  |
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Added to my collection, comes in a nice wooden display box.  |
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Gorgeous. Happy Dia De Los Muertes to all!
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