Just some more pictures. When I look at the full size pictures from the camera they do not look blury. Yet when I crop and save them so I can post them picture viewer they seem to be more blurry. And then if I use ACDsee, zoom out until they are about 30% they also do not look to bad. Still trying - if I get a chance this weekend I am going to look for tripod and some kind of lighting. Still trying - my real post is next. There is only one 1845 and the reverses I thing match the obverse.
That will be fixed with the tripod. Camera is focusing at one point and any movement after that results in blurry close-ups. Nice coin!
You are too close to the coin for your particular camera to focus on it.Just back up a few inches and then do the cropping later.The tripod will also help a lot.
OK, just a few notes. One, the pictures aren't blurry (when I think of "blur" it's related to motion). They are not in focus (as was said, probably due to being taken beyond the range of the lens). Second, understand that most cameras compress the image (to what degree is usually selectable, see camera instructions) and save them to the card as a jpeg. Taking that image and saving it again as a jpeg compresses it again, and to what degree depends on the settings in the graphic program (most often you can control this). Just watch recompressing compressed images or no matter how in-focus the image was... it won't be in the end.
Okay - I moved the camera back more. Cropped and save 100 for quality on compression then took it down to about 90% to fit it to post. On the reverse I was too lazy to go back and move the coin to a better position. So thanks for the tips.
