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 Posted 03/25/2015  10:01 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That looks close. What you're doing with that Kelvin setting is matching the Kelvin Temperature of the lighting - the same color scale as used in astronomy to describe star temperatures. This image, even if not color-perfect, is so close that adjustment in postprocessing is trivial.
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Coin flips are very nearly perfectly white. The flip your coin is in reads (typically, depends on where you take it) 139,138,133 so it is pretty close to being a perfect setting. You might try just a little "cooler" at perhaps 3500-3600 or try skewing the WB a bit toward blue, maybe B1. Or just leave it alone since you are only off by -4% in Blue.
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I have clicking away since you said I was close on the WB.
Rmpsrmps, what program did you use to check the whites on my coin flips?
So my reversal ring just arrived. I tried using it on my own but the results were terrible. very dark images and not as magnified as I thought. I obviously have to shoot full manual with this setup, any suggestions? I'll post the attempts if you want, but I don't thik they will help.
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I don't know how Ray does it but I use this:

http://instant-eyedropper.com

The reversing ring disconnected your electronic connection between lens and camera, preventing the camera from setting aperture. It has to be set at the lens now. In the absence of electronic signal some digital cameras default to aperture fully closed, and others are fully open. Makes setting the shot up a bit complex because you have to artificially reset some parameter - I use ISO - brighter to see what you're doing on the screen, and then back to snap the shot.
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So my 50mm lens with macro stack (1x,2x,and 4x) works great with half dollars, good with quarters, but is not close enough for smaller coins. The reversal ring while very inexpensive is very difficult to use.
So to get closer should I buy a old prime 85mm or more or go full monty and get a dedicated macro lens.
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or some other workaround
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Off the top of my head - understanding I lack experience with them - I can't imagine a stack like you're using being insufficient with the smallest of coins. On the contrary, I expected there to be some which you couldn't fit completely into the frame. Have you satisfied yourself that you're at the minimum possible distance from the subject to achieve focus?

If that be the case, experiment with fewer lenses in the stack. They may be limiting the minimum-possible focusing distance themselves. Try each alone, just to see if they allow you to get physically closer. Let's exhaust all possible combinations of the equipment you've got before we start spending more of your money.

Further, Ray will see this bumped the next time he's here, and will almost certainly weigh in with his broader experimental experience.
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