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MontCollector Pillar of the Community United States 2403 Posts	Posted 02/10/2016 10:17 pm I Have notice that there are lots of photos that are zoomed in on a coin, especially in the VAM and error coins sections. Are all these pics done with microscopes or is there a photo editing software that allow you to do this? I don't have Microscope but do have a descent Canon DSLR camera I use. * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

Fuzzy317 Moderator United States 14463 Posts	Posted 02/10/2016 10:41 pm Could be microscopes or taken with cameras with a Macro setting. See if your camera has a Macro setting. Report this Post to the Staff
Fuzzy317 Moderator United States 14463 Posts	Posted 02/10/2016 10:52 pm Also, here is one I took with just my cell phone and a magnifier app. Report this Post to the Staff
MontCollector Pillar of the Community United States 2403 Posts	Posted 02/10/2016 11:19 pm wow nice pic for a cell phone. I do have a macro or close up setting on my camera...guess ill have to play with it some more. Since I live in BFE Montana I have cheap cell phone for travel only. They don't work anywhere near my house. So don't have that option. Thanks Report this Post to the Staff
mcshilling Pillar of the Community Canada 9158 Posts	Posted 02/11/2016 09:16 am Do you have the software that should have come with the Canon? If you do it has 'Live view' in that you will get some good close ups. Report this Post to the Staff
rob_ccs New Member Australia 36 Posts	Posted 03/15/2016 06:59 am As stupid as it sounds, I find a flatbed scanner better at producing decent pictures of my coins than less-than-top-of-the-range digital cameras without specialist lighting. At 1200 dpi (or even 4800dpi with a slide attachment) you get pretty impressive enlargement. As a bonus, the scale of the images is consistent. (The main downside is the difficulty of ensuring that the coins are perfectly "upright" in the resultant pictures.) Sorry - no sample pics here as they are too big but I've just posted some pics of a British 1 cent pattern on the "pet peeves" topic - they were scaled down to one quarter size for that post Report this Post to the Staff
rmpsrpms Pillar of the Community United States 4037 Posts	Posted 03/15/2016 10:35 am Some folks do a screen capture when in Live View at 100% zoom. I think this is what mcschilling is saying above as well. It seems to work pretty well and is probably the fastest way to get detail images. Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com Report this Post to the Staff
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