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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 26599162, member: 134416&quot;]I&#039;m pretty decent at photographing people or objects, but I&#039;ve never had any luck with photographing coins.&nbsp; I have a sony Alpha-77 (I&#039;d have to dig up the lens specs, I bought a relatively fast lens for it), and I&#039;ve also tried my Note 20 Ultra (with more luck), resting on a soup can.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cell phone yielded better results, but aside from lighting issues, I rarely get good focus (I have the Note 20 Ultra on manual, which has much better results for photographing people, and I can use raw mode images.</p><p><br /></p><p>Terrible images, no matter what I do, and I see people using cell phones (and even doing quick, casual snaps) with decent to great results. That&#039;s really frustrating.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m photographing ancient coins, AE or AR.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t bothered to try with AV until I master the other two.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and even though I photograph the items using the same distance (soup can), the obverse and reverse images often differ slightly in size, which makes trying to stitch them together frustrating (and it takes forever, like 30 minutes per coin, and I&#039;m not even doing a background).&nbsp; I normally just use dealer photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a typical &#039;after&#039; photo (with the raw images stitched together and sometimes there&#039;s some color adjustments.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and something to rest the coins on safely has been a frustration.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been using a clear coin capsule, but as you can see, it&#039;s not always ideal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>These images were done for a super low-grade Byzantine lot.&nbsp; I normally don&#039;t take photographs but these didn&#039;t have any dealer photos.&nbsp; The reverse is a bit more in focus than the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t bother to try and remove the coin from the background (that&#039;s another issue).&nbsp; These were just for identification and my records.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1695004[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another problem is that I don&#039;t have anywhere good to set up a good lighting system.&nbsp; I&#039;m using a decrepit antique chairside model radio (which was basically a small coffee table) as my photography workspace.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also don&#039;t want to spend a bunch on it.&nbsp; If I could find a pre-built lightbox (I&#039;ve seen people use shoeboxes and the light), I&#039;d be more in business.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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