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Pillar of the Community
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Nice pic! It took me a while to figure out my cell phone for coin pics, but now it works pretty well.
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Thanks, next will be getting a quality set up to take proper photos.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I have an S-10. Please tell us what you've learned to do, or PM me please.  |
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United States
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Coinfrog. I start with a shoe sized box with a completely black interior. I then use a single bulb in the ceiling fan. I place the coin in the bottom of the box and use the middle rear facing camera. It shows as two tear drops on the screen. Then zoom to 2.0 power (fingers on the screen and move them apart) The default settings show up from .5 to 10.0. I found 1.5 to 2.0 give me the best results. I don't let the light directly hit the coin and move the box to accommodate the lighting. My next project will be to build a brace for easier vertical photography....my hands aren't as steady as they used to be. With a brace, I can set the camera for a 2 second delay to eliminate the shakes.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks pepactonius, but the camera deserves most of the credit.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks pepactonius, but the camera deserves most of the credit. I think lighting is usually the most important thing in coin photography. |
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Lighting is absolutely critical and can enhance or cover details.
I am looking at add on macro lens and possibly gimbles for my S10+. You can actually shot in raw format (in the "pro" mode) within the S10 series.
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Next, I plan to buy a macro lens that attaches externally to the S10 and give it a run through.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Yes, that's very well done for sure!  to the CCF! |
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The s10 camera is pretty good but the Samsung app has some sort of smoothing algorithm now that softens edges too much to the point where they seem out of focus. This is without any dedicated lighting and the coin is polished and partly silver plated.  Focus locking doesn't work properly any more either which really doesn't help. |
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Yes, the Samsung photography app does 'smooth' the image--smoothing to reduce the jpeg file size. It can be very annoying.
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Posted 04/19/2020 6:48 pm
