Post a photo and your camera model.

A lot of truth here. I am heavily into landscape photography, and I have a killer set up, but I just started coin photography and my setup doen't make much of a difference compared to these guys who have been shooting coins for a while and have the lighting, angles, etc. figured out. Its experience that counts. Asking a photogrpher what kind of camera he uses is sort of like asking a writer, what kind of type writer he uses.

Anyway here is my shot. Getting better but not there yet.......

Canon EOS 5D Mk II
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro

 

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Page 85 of your manual discusses exposure compensation. That allows you to counter the automatic settings and offset the exposure/brightness by +/- 2 full stops of light. That'd be plenty in this situation.

Dave

 

exactly!

 

Old technology for me (with my original Sony Mavica), but still get an adequate photo. Getting much harder to find 3 1/2" diskettes though...

 

Cannon AE1

 

Your manual page 86 describes adjusting the white balance. Your camera seems to have the same adjustments as my Canon camera. I normally just set it to automatically compensate for the lighting type (Tungsten, fluorescent, day light, cloudy, etc). However, you can also customize the white balance with your current camera.

Pages 94 - 98 describe shooting with macro & how to change the center auto-focus frame. If your coins are actually moving (like car moving down the street, then your camera even has an option selection to auto focus on the moving object while it allows you to further compose the photo. It should be a simple matter to focus on any object in the frame using your existing camera.

 

LMAO! Have you tried the Smithsonian archives for some disks?

 

At least I'm not the only one reading Detectos manual.

 

No kidding. My first digital camera only lasted about 14000 pics then stopped focusing well

 

Nikon D300
Nikon 200mm f/4 Micro



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