Although I'm halfway decent with "normal" coin photography, clashes completely escape me and my camera both. Does anyone have helpful hints?
SO what exactly do you mean by clashes...color, background.. please explain and I maybe can help you. RickieB
Hey Dave..I would get a QX 5 or QX3 and that will solve the problem....do a goggle search for QX5 and whammo...USB connection with 100x power! RickieB http://www.compuvisor.com/digbludigmov1.html
Just change the angle of the camera and the angle of the lighting so that it creates more of a shadow across the high spots and the clashes will become readily visible.
I own a QX5. It won't do it. So far, I've done almost fifty different combinations of angle and lighting with my digicam, without success. I have managed it in the past: This coin, with a similar but lighter clash in the exact same place, just won't image.
Well Dave from that perspective I would do the folowing...since the QX 5 has its own lighting lamp..I would purchase a piece of Neutral density filter material from a photo supply company...I have a photo studio in my basement and I use Paul C Buff's "White Lightning" strobes/heads. I also have what is called color gels..you can get these from him in a Neutral density in 3 degrees of filtration...it works wonders on bright over light areas in photography...here is the site.. www.white-lighting.com RickieB
Higher resolution (640x480), faster video playback, and measurement scales at the sides of the image are the big differences. RickieB, you got me to thinking, and helped me reach the solution. I'd already acquired a few filter gels to cut up and rig a diffuser for the QX5, but never got around to it. Well, I did, and discovered that the diffused light combined with greater depth of field than I thought it had gave me the ability to do this: I just cranked the light setting up, tilted the coin and played. Unfortunately, I proved that my 1921-D VAM3B was only a 3B1 and not a 3B2, but you win some and you lose some.
