Preventing Blurriness

Three possible solutions:

1. Photograph the coin at a dead 90 degree angle.

2. Try taking the photo from further away, then the difference in distance between the bottom and top of the coin will have less of an impact on focus.

3. Send all your coins and your camera to Mom and I, then you don't have to worry about it anymore.

I use the 2 second delay when shooting mine, I noticed it helped mine a little bit. Sometimes I would bump the camera a little bit when pushing the shutter button, now it waits 2 seconds and takes the picture.

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try using one of these:

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place the level on the back of the camera, center the bubble.

Depth of field is the area that is in focus, at low light settings this can be very shallow. As in less than a 16th of an inch.

imagine a line exactly parallel to the coin, just touching the coin.
this line is also parallel to the camera, and the the two lines move
at the same rate to to each other.

the line at the coin is the depth of field (area in focus), and if you tilt the camera, you can see that part of the coin is in focus while the area above or below the line is out of focus.

I picked it up at Home Depot. You should be able to find one at any hardware/tool store. it called a bubble level.
I think I paid $3.98 for it two months ago.

If you'll use the level, (I know that one as a bulls-eye level), I suggest you first level the surface that the coin stands, then the camera, so you'll make sure they are parallel to each other.

You may try to zoom in and out to see if the coin stays at the same spot on the display, then the coin is exactly in line with the objective.


I'm looking for one of those levels myself. The only one I found was 11 Euros, frankly I couldn't spend so much for a simple level.

Well, not to start an argument here, but I think the bubble level is extreme overkill. I've been taking coin photos for many years without one with no blurriness.

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Depth of field is the area that is in focus, at low light settings this can be very shallow. As in less than a 16th of an inch.

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I can honestly say that I have never seen a depth of field anywhere near that shallow while taking any coin photo.

Maybe my micro mode is causing this? This time I had it on a tripod and it was a distance away from the coin. I normally shoot by putting it in micro mode and getting the camera as close to the coin as long as there's enough light on it. When I shoot close up, I'm able to get better detail with it than with the tripod and the coin sitting a distances away. Maybe it has something to do with my camera? I have a Canon A620 http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/c.../index.shtml

7070, I am.