Canon T1i

You are doing what I'm doing, taking shots and wait for someone to tell you what to do next. The pics are dark and the dollar has good detail, the nickel looks a little burry. That's all I've got lets see what they say.

mcshilling yes but I find I can get the same effect with just closing down of the f stop. so polarized filter really did not do much here. pepactonius yes I was wondering what would the polarized filter do on the janjso lamps. think I will try that next to see what I get. when I get that rigged up I will share a couple pics. see what you think. think I have a fix for a micro focus adjuster . need to find a couple of pieces. once I have it together will show every body how I built it have a great one

Nice pic rocky. Now you're cooking with gas!

wizzy 1 yes I see by your comments. yes you have it as well. I read the thread by rmc and ray and dave would tell him to make notes. I know understand why like you said. we will always have to do a little tweaking as we change coins. wizzy 1. I have some coins I want to move on ebay . I have found and easier way to photography them. lighting with this lens is not as difficult. I still use my same camera and same lights. the lens is so easy and cheap and it will work with all coins. there is another member that has a similar lens. I know his is a lot more expenses. onces I seen how good it worked I brought the whole set to test them and all I can say is wow. but they do not preform like the enlarger lens. they make coin photography very easy. have a great one wizzy1 keep taken them photos

all I did was crop and shrink until the images fit here. I noticed as I shrink the images. they are not as good as the original size images. they changed interesting

It does work. I tried it a couple years ago using linear polarizers. But it gave an "odd" look to the image and I was not impressed enough to move forward with it except as an experiment. As I remember, it also resulted in extremely long exposure times since so much of the light is blocked. Maybe someone with a finer touch at these things could make good use of the technique by carefully managing the polarizing angles to get just the right amount of extinction. I don't remember a huge color shift, but keep in mind that luster and other important aspects of the "in-hand look" also get blocked. What the technique may give you is a way to use a single light by minimizing the strong highlights single lights cause, but this is only speculation.

ben doing some picture taking with a few different lens el nikkor 75mm el-omegar 75mm vivitar 75mm componar 80mm. all exceptional wonderful lenses. my problem is that. I find my coins appear better than they are with these lens. so I read a other forums and finally found a lense. that when I take and image the image and the coin match. still use my canon camera the lens I brought of ebay came already attached to a bellows. the lens is Minolta auto bellows rokkor 1:4 100 mm. here is and image from that lense. I am going to sell my collection and need the images to match my coins. I find this my best match any suggestion greatly appreciated. I also tried a super takumar 50mm same out come. they are easy to work with and easy to light the coins.