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I've been playing around with my new Nikon D60 camera and got these shots of my 1877-CC dime, graded MS-64 by NGC. I need a macro lens to get even better detail but these photos look better than what I was able to do with my old Cybershot.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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  That's a Sweetie! |
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The mottled toning on that is fantastic. Nice coin. How many megapixels was your old cybershot? I just got a new 10 meg Canon Powershot, that I have yet to really experiment with, but it seems to take a nice pic...
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with both! I love the tone on it! |
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Pillar of the Community
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That's a wonderful coin and great shots of it, especially if it's in a slab (was it?). I have found it to be pretty difficult to take good photos of slabbed coins.
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Pillar of the Community
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Maybe it's just me, but I have more luck 'scanning' hi-res
pics of coins than actually taking photos of them. However,
the photos some of you guys take come close to the results
I get from scanning. My best camera pics are terrible in
comparison. Great CC!
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That's excellent work for a coin that small, in a slab. Chances are the only improvements a dedicated macro will offer are incremental, and the ability to stand the lens off a little farther to play with lighting. What lens are you using right now?
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Hi Dave, When my photos start looking like yours I'll be approaching "excellent". Meanwhile I'll settle for "better than they used to be". I'm using the standard 18-55 mm Nikkor lens that came with the D60 Nikon. With the camera in macro mode and the lens zoomed in as tight as it can go I can focus at about 9 inches from the coin. At that distance slab reflections don't seem to be so much of a problem. So far I've only used a single halogen light (no flash) and I'm playing with various angles. The coin only occupies a small area of the shot but when cropped it still shows pretty sharp detail. That's where I expect a genuine macro lens will help, by allowing the coin to fill the frame with less cropping. Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm still working on it!  |
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Beautiful piece.
Congrats.
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I'm using the standard 18-55 mm Nikkor lens that came with the D60 Nikon. Great coin and very well done for the "kit lens"! As a longtime macro photographer using Nikons, I think you'll find the 60mm Nikkor micro lens would be a good upgrade. The sharpness and flatness of field are amazing. All my photos posted here use this lens. |
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Posted 12/31/2008 3:31 pm
