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So after talking to my wife about coin photography she said well....we could use an upgrade to our family camera...ding ding ding. In which she found a D90 with 18mm-105mm lens and some other extras off ebay and said.....this is a good deal, you should buy this. So being a good husband I did as instructed  Anyway I figure I will eventually need to get a few items to maximize coin photography potential out of the camera. Any suggestions as to what I may need? Or will I luck out and be able to use it as is? Thanks guys |
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Valued Member
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I had a d90 prior to my purchase of a dedicated bellows canon body. I used a 50 mm fixed prime lens. This will be more effective than your zoom lens. The 50 mm lens can be picked up real cheap used. And a tripod/ copy stand to stabilize the camera, and some decent lights. The popular lights used on this forum are jansco lights from ikea. Look for my old thread, lots of equipment don't know how to use it.
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oh I forgot a set of macro adapters that screw on the end of the 50 mm lens.
But a bellows and a enlarger lens would produce far better images.
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Thanks Wizzy, will have to play around with it once I get it in hand....see what kind of results I can get right now, then will look at lenses. My business partner has a canon rebel I'm trying to get out of him, he has used it twice, as in two pictures over 3 years. If I can get it cheap enough I'll end up using that as my body for coin photography.
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Pillar of the Community
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I got the camera and after playing with it for about 10 minutes realized I can't to a thing with this lens for coin photography. Part of me is leaning toward just making this camera the family camera and then purchasing the rebel setup recommended on another thread, which would probably set me back less than $400, versus purchasing lenses for this camera, it looks like I may need a 90mm or so macro lens with AF capabilities to even get me started.
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Pillar of the Community
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That lens is capable of 1:1, so you would not need extension tubes to do full-coin shots. If you want to do really high power detail shots you would need a different lens, but the Tamron 90mm will do fine for coins.
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Is that reasonable for pricing? total newbie with this stuff
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That's just a starting bid; retail on the lens is $500. Any good macro lens will set you back more than the total cost of the full bellows systems we recommend.
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Valued Member
United States
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enlarger lens/bellows, much cheaper, as good if not better macro images, not so portable but who cares.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So instead of the macro lens what items of these do I need for coin photography. I have a microscope so I don't really need to get super close at this time, ultimate goal, fill the picture space with the coin. Granted if that macro lens doesn't get an opening bid I will probably go for that, just because this is a multi function camera not dedicated just to coins...I digress....here's the list: already have lighting and tripod
M42 Focusing Helicoid 17-31mm
M42 Extensions 2 sets 7/14/28mm or Vivitar bellows, rail and mount.
M42 - M39 Adapter
M42 - RMS Adapter
Nikon 75mm El-Nikkor Lens
Nikon M5 or Plain Objective
I'm ready to learn :)
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Pillar of the Community
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Since you don't need to get very close you can dispense with the M42-RMS adapter and the M5 objective. These are for microscope level imaging.
You will need a Nikon-M42 adapter. Other than that, this list is complete.
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Valued Member
United States
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If you use the Canon I'd suggest looking at Tokina macro lenses, same quality as Canon\etc, at much lower cost; check out ebay. If you haven't invested in a copy stand for your setup I'd highly recommend checking out Amazon. Just a rookie as well but get really nice photo's from Tokina and stand... |
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Very nice! Like the toning pick up in 99 Morgan
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Posted 07/08/2015 12:26 pm
