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United States
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Interesting, I have one of those but haven't tried it out yet.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 Great job! I ordered one of these clip on style lens but I haven't taken any pics yet. |
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Rest in Peace
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Wonder if that would work on my worthless android tablet?  |
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 United States
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Edited by John1
03/19/2017 08:08 am
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United States
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I have this type and it does work fantastically. It says 0.67x macro on it. I've noticed that it will make areas further away on a coin out of unusually out of focus but the zoomed in part nice and sharp. In my ebay auctions, I explain this very thing. Also, sometimes getting the macro lens to focus on the correct area of the coin or token can also be an issue. Further, I've learned that I can hold my 10x loupe up against the lens of my Galaxy Note 4 camera and the photo's it takes are comparable. Sometimes the pics with the loupe are better than with the clip-on macro lens. For example here's Three Cent Nickel. This was taken with my naked lens.  This was taken with the 10x loupe physically up against the camera lens. Notice that only the date is in focus, nothing else was worth keeping in the frame, plus the sides of the loupe were in the picture so I removed them.  This was taken with the clip-on lens. See that the entire top of the coin is blurry but still understandable enough to leave in the picture.  I should also mention that with my Galaxy Note 4, I use a windows computer. I take the pictures, which then upload to Google Photos. I go to the computer and in Chrome I go to Google Photos and it is there that I crop them, and rotate them if necessary. This is SO much easier to do with a mouse than on the touch screen. There are so many more controls this way. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Oh, lighting is very important with macro lens, even more so than with regular photography. Keep this in mind when using a loupe or a macro lens.
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United States
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United States
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Another option for photographing a coin or token is using a flatbed scanner on its highest resolution.
The issue there is often time the scan will show such detail that you will show things that aren't visible to the naked eye, for better or for worse...
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 United States
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John1, thanks for the links, particularly the first one. Lots of learning was done reading through it.
Gab, I was a bit surprised at how well the clip worked. Light source will definitely make a big difference. The shots I took with the clip only had ambient sunlight coming through my slider in the kitchen. Once I get a light box setup, I'm sure I can get much better shots. I'll have to look into the USB microscope as well. Thanks for the input all!
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United States
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Flat out, unequivocally, I love the usb microscope. It's simple to use and compact. There is a ring of LED lights that are built in.
That said, I wish it had much stronger magnification. I would love to be able to have my seven year old take an item, like a leaf, and zoom in to show cell structure. That would *really* be awesome. I'm not talking about blood cells here, just the little cells that make up a leaf, or maybe the wing of a bug or something.
The advertising for it says it is 400x, but who knows.
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Korea, Republic Of
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This is pretty awesome. I normally just rubberband my loupe onto my phone camera. :)
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