Hey, Hey, Here's a 1953-D/D (D over L variety) R-4. Wonder what this baby is worth and perhaps the grade. Trust me on this as my camera is MACRO'd too it's max... I'd venture to say XF-40 at least Bone/Ben
First of all you may want to improve your lighting while taking photos of coins. With out getting nuratic like some do and buy expensive lighting setups, try just going outside in the day time, out of direct sunlight but on nice sunny days, put the coin on a flat dark service and then take the photos. Also, if you don't want to spend lots of money on a better camera, you may want to just look into a magnifier on a stand and just take photos through that. One thing also you may want to check out stores such as Best Buy, Circuit City, Radio Shack, etc for a resonable photo program for changing the scale of the photos. As to the coin, if it is indeed a doubled coin it should really be worth something in the condition you stated but difficult to see due to the photo. One thing I always recommend is checking out Lincoln Cents with the coppercoins.com web site.
A great techinque I've found to get super close-ups is to put a loop to the camera lens, focus and shoot. This will probably only work with a small camera. My camera lens is the same size as my loop. btw: BoneDigger, hope you found something Good, there! SM
Your right about my camera and lighting. I've got an older Sony FD91 which use's one of those 3.5" disks and I've got a shakey hand. The lighting is from a 100watt bulb and the coin is on a sheet of light blue paper. I found that to be the best for the poor set-up I have. I had to really get the lens down close to the coin to get the pic as is. As for the coin if you had a loup and could see it there would be no question. I checked it against the example in Shane Anderson's book and it matches it too a T. Bone
Hey, don't make fun of those Mavica's. I've got a MVC-FD7 and a MVC-FD88. I've taken the 88 on work assignments and have probably shot well over 10,000 photos with that thing. Now if your 91 is similar to my 88 it should have a thing in the front called a filter ring. My 7 dose not have one. My 88 has a 38mm filter ring. If you live in an area where there is a decent camera store or any store with a decent camera accessory supply, they may have close up lenses for that camera of yours that would be cheaper than buying a new camera. If nothing in your area try the internet with such places as www.bhphotovideo.com. That's the web site for B&H which has about the largest supply of camera stuff anywhere. I have used a Vivitar series of +1,+2,+3 combination and have gotten as close as the lens resting on the subject. However, nowadays the prices of digital cameras has fallen to the point where anything a few years old is now a trowaway. As an example of that a friend of mine that deals in cameras just gave me a Nikon Coolpix 600 and an Olupus D-320L free because just to old an wouldn't sell at the camera shows.
Hey thanks for the information. Yes, the camera is just factory stock and was handed to me after the wife got her "KODAK Nimbus 2000" which I'm not allowed to touch, LOL. Sadly it too doesn't have a decent macro lens. Here is a PHOTOSHOP 7.0 scan along with a 1954 D/D overdate which you can't see so why bother but it's there Bone/Ben
Don't forget that if you really want some information on Lincoln Cents you may want to check out the coppercoins.com web site. I think he has a service where he will check out your coin if you think it's worth the trouble.
