Help With Sanyo Vpc-E2100

What photo editing soft ware do you have? You should also consider using photo bucket. Up loaded the photo to photobucket. Then copy the link and paste the link into your post.

First, here's a tutorial on using Photobucket to post at Coin Community:

https://goccf.com/t/53146

Always - regardless of host - crop your images as close to the coin as possible. This minimizes excess pixels increasing filesize; you'd be surprised how few do that simple step and then have difficulty with the Uploader.

The "M" setting on your Mode dial is for Manual operation, not Macro. The Macro setting is on the multifunction button on the back - the flower symbol at the 9:00 position. The thing is, not all lenses function the same in Macro mode. Lenses have minimum focusing distances which are a function of their design, and zoom lenses tend to compromise this capability. The manual for your camera indicates a rather odd circumstance - your minimum focusing distance seems to be in the middle of the zoom range, not zoomed all the way out as most lenses are. You're going to have to play with the zoom to find out at what setting your camera can get closest to the coin, to maximize the size of the clear image you can present.

Thanks dave for the great advice and information. I never would have thought photographing a coin would be so involved. Each day I learn something new that makes me appreciate this journey all the more.

Every time I see your name I think of super dave osborne :)

Scott