So yesterday my grandmother came home from Alaska with the camera, so today I went to her house to use it. Got all the pictures of my new acquisitions and was SUPER excited to edit and post them for you all to see. I also got some pictures of some Morgans I was going to sell for a friend. So I took the pictures, went home and got ready to edit them on photscape, then upload them on http://www.thecoinnection.com and plugged the memory card into the computer. I had everything opened and ready to work, plugged it in, the card wouldn't work, restart computer, card overheated and quite literally melted in the adapter. Going to have to re-shoot the coins. While I was trying to save what I could, I managed to get 3 coins. Here they are: 1862 IHC 1915 Barber Half: And finally, an impared proof 1960 Franklin from... You guessed it a 1960 Proof set I cracked an put in 2x2s Edit: anybody wanna take a stab at the grade for the IHC and barber?
I took a total of 220 pictures and had 10 pics I could use. The others were just obverse/reverse of different coins I could not use.
Sounds like a familiar story, but for a different reason. It has been my experience that you often need to take 50 or more pictures of each coin just to get 1 or 2 that are usable. By usable I mean a picture that provides a true representation of what the coin looks like in hand - which is not necessarily the way you want it to look. Of course with practice, that number can be dropped.
Oh man, losing all those files on the card really sucks. Let me take a stab at the grades and say they are both VG.
Okay, I am going to find a new memory card lying around my house somewhere and try again... Wish me luck! Oh and I get to walk a mile in the first snow of the year :thumb:
That's certainly been my experience, having to take a ton of pics to get an acceptable one or two, and sometimes none! At least with digital,there's no wasted film anymore.
Here's a few more pics I took today: Decided to try and combine a proof set. Don't like the misrepresentation of size and I don't care much for the silvers for they are impared... The cent and nickel do have some nice toning though. My first Feebay purchase (through a friend) So I was doing some work for a friend of my moms, we agreed to take half of the price and do face value in copper cents. So I got a bunch of copper, and a bunch of unc. Cents such as this 1960 large date: and a pleasant circulation find. 1964 Jefferson Nickel:
Yes, you may not be able to see it, but the nickel is kind of a 'blue' tone throughout with golden highlights, the cent is just wonderful. :yes:
This is why I try to never leave photos just sitting on my camera's memory. I usually get them off as soon as possible.
