Thread: Photographing an entire coin collection?

Another excuse to post a pic of my ENTIRE collection... one collection, one pic:

Here is what I came with after much editing with Picasa 3. As you can see focus is lost or at best olny fair when zooming on an individual nickel.
Picasa 3 has no focus control so I cannot go any farther. I'm not sure this even should be a consideration because the main project was to get each album page photographed acceptably. PLEASE EXCUSE the poor lighting which causes dark areas and bright areas bon each page.
Any suggestions will be much appreciated. I'm using a Nikon L120 Cool Pix, 14 megapixel, digital camera.
zeke

Originally Posted by icerain

Has anyone ever photographed their entire coin collection? I can imagine this will quickly become a burden especially for those collectors that have hundreds of coins. I have thought about it and at times thought it as enjoyable but sometimes I think its just too much to do.

And I'm not talking about just taking a picture of the coin as is. I mean photoshopping and making a canvas and all. Right now I'm trying to focus on just taking pictures of my better stuff, but I find myself sometimes not even having the time for that.

Since I have a very tiny collection compared to most here, and my collection is about 5000 coins, I do not think photographing our entire collection is something many wish to do rofl.

Originally Posted by jloring

Another excuse to post a pic of my ENTIRE collection... one collection, one pic:

reminds me of how my collection looks rofl.

Originally Posted by randygeki

Could always scan them in too, like these beauties

scanning is not too bad for getting details, but it shows 0 luster or cartwheels.

Basically it makes even MS70 coins look like they have the luster of a VG coin.

Hello Coin People,

Last weekend I took 198 slabbed coins from a SDB to play at home. I hadn't seen these coins for a long time & it was nice to make their acquaintance again. The SDB coins included my proof collection of Liberty nickels and an MS collection of Liberty nickels. There were also a bunch of other really cool coins ranging from $5 coins to $5,000 coins. In total there were 198 in the box. Before returning them to the SDB I photographed them all to create a record of what was in the box. I rapidly took two pictures of each coin & probably invested about an hour photographing all 198 slabs. I then had to invest much more time just to align & crop the 400 photos. The pics are not really glamour photos that I would be proud to post here at CT but I think they are very adequate to describe the contents of the SDB. What do you think of these pics?

I don't have coins...

Originally Posted by tonedcoins

I don't have coins...

Lies, Rigo... Blatant lies!

-Brian

Originally Posted by tonedcoins

I don't have coins...

OK... let's finish the statement:

"I don't have coins... I have (fill in the blank)".

Originally Posted by tonedcoins

I don't have coins...

Here is one in the SDB that I didn't remember having..... But now I remember.....
I got the coin in a PCGS holder & planned to have it crossed to NGC. Not having a submission planned, I stored it away and it got stored in the SDB with my other DDR half dollars. I'd actually forgotten about it until now. Of course, this was a nice surprise. Now I wish that I had taken a better photo to view the details of this particular doubled die reverse.

Originally Posted by jloring

OK... let's finish the statement:

"I don't have coins... I have (fill in the blank)".

Numismatic collectibles as far as the PO is concerned

Originally Posted by Collect89

Here is one in the SDB that I didn't remember having..... But now I remember.....
I got the coin in a PCGS holder & planned to have it crossed to NGC. Not having a submission planned, I stored it away and it got stored in the SDB with my other DDR half dollars. I'd actually forgotten about it until now. Of course, this was a nice surprise. Now I wish that I had taken a better photo to view the details of this particular doubled die reverse.

Yeah Collect, I love being surprised by DDO's I forgot I had stashed in my SDB with other sweet coins. But seriously, some beautiful coins.

here is mine, need to add about 20.


http://bluccphotos.com/set/

All my ancients are in my sig here, my U.S. coins are posted on the NGC site but only a few have photos. Ive never had a desire to take pics of them all. Quarter of then are problem based.

Originally Posted by blu62vette

here is mine, need to add about 20.


http://bluccphotos.com/set/

I have always enjoyed your images vette. Nice work.