Is This A Good Camera To Use For Coin Photos?

Let me give you two answers here, both being my humble opinion.

First: If you are happy with the results, then it's a good camera for your purpose.

Second: It's great that you don't use a phone or pad for coin photography but a real camera. Especially when talking about tiny details on surfaces of usually less than one inch (or several millimeters in rest-of-the-world speak ;) ), then you really need something better than a phone. Nikon is a great brand and the P610 is a very nice camera. I personally have a D5200 SLR with a lens in the 70-200 mm range to be able to make good close ups. I didn't buy the camera for coin purposes, but it sure comes in handy when making close-up pictures of tiny objects.

For settings, I can only recommend you to play around with the possibilities your camera offers and see for yourself what works best for you.

For lighting, I recommend that you use a well-lit room, use as much light as possible. You want to keep the shutter time as low as possible when making close-ups. But make sure there is no direct light beams on your coin, due to reflection of the metal. Also, use a neutral, non-reflecting background for the best results.

I hope this helps.

Your P610 has a macro mode but only specs I can find is "1cm - infinity" focusing. Not too helpful. The problem with very close focusing is getting good lighting on the coin. To see if the camera will work for coins, can you show us some pics? Set the zoom at widest setting and move the camera to closest focus distance and snap the shot. Make sure the shot is in focus, and if not move a little farther away. Then zoom in a little and repeat this process until you've zoomed out so much that the coin is too small in the frame. Then publish these shots for critique and we can help you decide if the camera is suitable. Don't worry about lighting for now, let's just see if the camera can do the job.

Yeah, those are pretty small. Are you hosting externally? Can't say much from those.

UberDan you have windows. have you tried opening your images in windows photo. if you do crop them there. resize them to 500 x 500. then post them here. the lighting on your coin is like it is coming from one angle. if you light from 10 oclock and 2 oclock in and x pattern. using diffusion you can get a better lighting on your coins. change your back ground colour. that you lay your coin on. change it to yellow drawing paper. that will also brighten your coin some more. hope this helps

Thanks for that everyone, I've found with the lighting techniques and settings mentioned above, I've been able to get some good shots.