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Valued Member
United States
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Show some of your best coins images and give some details like the type of camera, scanner etc.... Edited by 50cents
11/10/2006 3:28 pm
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Forum Dad
 United States
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Wooooaaaa boy! You have no idea the can of worms you've opened!  Sit back and enjoy............ |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
954 Posts |
Nikon 4300 Love this copper shot.  I got the look of this silver just right.   |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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This picture of an old copper came out nicely with a mix of artificial and natural light. I didn't think I'd be able to capture the tinges of red still on the coin but there they are. This was done with a Panasonic FZ20 on a tripod with natural and halogen (desk lamp) lighting. I also used my coin stand as inspired by Bobby.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Edited by Bryan1315
11/10/2006 6:26 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I like the way this one came out... [url  [/url] I used a fluro desk lamp for lighting, the camera is a kodak CX6230. A very basic camera. It doesn't focus up close, so I have to use digital zoom. I also use the flash, but cover the bulb with white card to tone it down. Camera is hand held. I think I just broke all the rules of coin photograghy. Steve |
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Australia
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Second hand ten year old Vuego true color photo scanner Sets brighness, contrast, colorscale, gryeness scale and all other things before scanning Will beat about anybody's camera on gold apart from Bobby of course Image:  50 000 Won Turtle Ship K.jpg46.64 KB  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Konica-Minolta , Dimage Z2 4.0 mega Pixel ,Macro ,Natural light, camera hand held.   Fugifilm 2.0 finepix A-205 Mega pixel ,Macro,artifical light,camera rested but hand held.It doesn't take a 600.00 camera to get good pixs!!!   Rick Edited by Metalman
11/12/2006 1:08 pm
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Valued Member
 United States
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Fugifilm 2.0 Mega pixel ,Macro,artifical light,camera rested but hand held.It doesn't take a 600.00 camera to get good pixs!!!
Rick
I have seen great coin images with $100 cameras so I agree with you Rick. I really like all the pictures so far! Great job everyone, Applause; |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The camera I use is a JVC QC-QX3HD 3.3 Megapixel camera that I paid like 30 bucks for on ebay and I have used it for over a year but I think I am needing something a little better now |
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United States
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There are a number of different reasons to like particular photos, and not all of them involve accuracy. I like this set for accuracy:   Currently in Cisco's collectionThese were pretty faithful, as well:   An Ebayer got this coin for $35But, sometimes, you get lucky and the image, if inaccurate, becomes something more than it might otherwise. This is my personal favorite coin photo:  Went for the same price as the '78 aboveYou have to be careful. A small difference in lighting makes a big difference in the image:  1921-D VAM-1D with indirect lighting Same coin, directly lit...and sometimes the image can't be trusted at all:  Actual coin 10 minutes with PhotoshopI agree that the operator and lighting are far more important than the camera. However, sometimes having the right camera opens up opportunities that aren't available otherwise:   both shot with Canon S2 using Super MacroCheap isn't always bad:  QX5 microscope shotScanners have their place, too:  I've been photographing coins for about 18 months. Before that, I didn't know what "macro" meant. I'm still unsatisfied with the results of 99% of my shots. |
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United States
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Oh, yeah. The first 5 shots were taken with an identical camera to Metalman's - a Minolta Z2. It's a great camera, but has no image stabilization. That's why I bought the Canon S2 which the rest of the shots were taken with. The last pic is from my Epson V100 scanner @2400dpi.
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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@ Superdave that photoshop touch up was very nice not overdone , no atomic afterglow only at pixelbreak up one can see under the chin that it was photoshopped ; which is ironical since this was the area that needed the least retouching Image: photoshop after morgan blue.jpg83.55 KB  |
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United States
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SuperDave, Great looking pictures and I have seen some of your images over at the Universe. I just put 2 and 2 together.  |
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