I sometimes turn my camera up to 8MP so I can blow it up without distorting the image. For variety coins I found that the camera lens is about the same size as my 12X loupe, If I put the magnifier right up to the lens of the camera it is able to focus and magnify the image at very close range. I found that with scanned images you can miss a lot of details, if the coin is BU and shiney the bright light reflecting can cover up seperation lines etc. I just recently discovered this, check out the pictures in my topic from a couple days ago "help again 1962 Lincoln"



















