I have been playing with the

New cell phone stand...

Are these photos any good?
They just don't seem to have any life to them?
I am having trouble getting the focus on the brilliance and detail.



How many of you photo coins with your cell phones?

DSLR

 

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I do!!!
I use more of a simple method, but I like what you got there. . It has potential.

 

Same thing, I was bored and had a clean garage for the day.
I have a hard time being idle. I have to be doing something.

 

@Pickin and Grinin I know it's sacrilegious but your pic with the cell phone has more detail than with the DSLR.

 

I use my cell phone. Here's one I look last night.

 

I don't have enough practice with a phone so my results are not very good.
I have better results and control with a DSLR with a macro lens.

 

The only difficulty that I have with the DSLR is figuring out what that acronym means. Got it now.

 

You can see very much of the detail! Awesome set up. May have an invention there.

 

"Brilliant" coins (think proofs) have been a problem for me.
I built an axial lighting system but since we moved I don't have the space to set it up.

 

I used to use my DSLR. But ever since I got an iPhone from my cheaper Android Stylo4 the image quality (because of better lens, better everything) was so much better, faster and much more convenient with the iPhone.

 

Nice!!!

 

Digital Single Lens Reflex

 

Why is that? Here is what I see. There are aspects of the photos that I like. If you look at the reverse, the cell does show the small ticks, bag marks a little better, and gives the viewer a good impression of the coin.But the DSLR seems to show the details much better especially when the photo is expanded. Breast feathers claws, tail feathers and lettering is much sharper.


One other thing is that the cell is a bit darker and doesn't get to the in-hand look. The dslr is much brighter and closer to in hand for color and tones.
Not trying to argue, just wondering what makes you like the cell better?

 

Is that a digital camera or a set up for your cell phone?

 

I am a rookie myself with the cell phone.
One day I will get a better lens for my Canon 600D. Right now I just use a 55mm lens.

 

The DSLR has a narrower depth of field, so the zone that's actually in focus is thinner.

What you want to look into is focus stacking. For example: https://www.heliconsoft.com/

 

I have heard of stacking before but never really understood it.
I will have to check into it.

 

Will a true macro lens the zone of focus may only be 1 or 2/10 of a millimeter. This means that the breast of one image might be in focus, the wings not so much and the field not really. If you take another image, the wings are in focus. A third with the field i focus.

If you combine the in focus parts of the three, you get a single image where everything is in focus.

The magic of maths.

 

My focus was more on the obverse. The DSLR looks more washed out. My eyes see more detail in George's hair on the cell camera pic.

 

That definitely makes sense.

I agree.