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 Posted 10/12/2024  2:10 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Babar to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all!
It's been a long while since I posted, lots of moving since I last did, my collection is a lot more fractured and swapping hasn't been easy in a while. I got a new set of coins recently, and since I don't have my trusty magnifying glass and high intensity lamp currently, and I've grown older and weaker of eye, I figured I'd just take a photograph and zoom in on the image, or zoom in on the image and take a photograph. Long story short, I've not been having good luck with my pictures.

I've shared an example where I'm trying to figure out if my Aussie coin from 2001 has separate I R B, connected IRB or I RB. And I honestly can't even tell!

The hilarious thing is that this is with my mobile phone camera, the one I tried on my fancier semi-professional camera came out worse.
So I figured I'd ask, what is your camera setup? Do you have it fixed on a tripod? Aiming straight on at the coin, slanted a bit? Flash/no flash? Light from another source, etc?
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 Posted 10/12/2024  5:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sharper closeups needed.
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One of the easiest setups to force focus the camera:


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 Posted 10/13/2024  04:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spyro to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice result for a hand-held phone camera. What phone is it? For lighting I use an ordinary desk lamp with a "daylight" bulb, slightly blue to offset the yellowness of ordinary household lighting. Have fun!
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It's a OnePlus 11, flagship from about 2 years ago.
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 Posted 10/14/2024  08:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spyro to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Mine's an old iPhone 7. Your results are as good as mine. It's mostly a case of focus, as the others said, which itself can be helped by keeping the phone really steady. Anything will help, even a small pile of books! Happy photographing!
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