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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 26613114, member: 134416&quot;]My new photography station and a discovery of something I was doing wrong in the manual photography settings yielded some dramatic improvments; much more in focus than they used to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>The results are still subpar but much improved.&nbsp; The low-grade A2 follis actually shows way more detail in the picture than it does with the naked eye.&nbsp; I had to use a magnifier to ascertain what&#039;s up and down, it&#039;s that faint. It&#039;s also very dark.</p><p><br /></p><p>A more competent macro photographer could have yielded much improvement on the silver coin. It has a silky, gunmetal grey old-cabinet tone, and the toning is much more consistent and pleasing than in the picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>I get the photography terms mixed up. What&#039;s the 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 number - the f-stop?&nbsp; In all cases so far, 0.4. worked out the best.&nbsp; I have ISO at 80, the same as I use on people.&nbsp; The exposure was at factory norm on the silver but I had to bump it up for the very dark low-grade coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s only about 2 or 3 times a year where I get unphotographed coins. It doesn&#039;t make a lot of sense to spend a bunch of money on my photography station.&nbsp; My Sony alpha 77 dSLR achieves pin-sharp detail for people, though I don&#039;t have a macro lens.&nbsp; I suppose if I could find a somewhat inexpensive used Minolta macro lens&nbsp; it might make sense to buy a macro tripod.&nbsp; My two tripods are useless for macro.&nbsp; (These are all Note ultra pics).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Note usually produces too much grain when I use the auto mode but it does take quite passable pics of people; much better looking coloration than my macro pics.</p><p><br /></p><p>The actual toning of the reverse of the quadrigatus is much like the obverse; silky, old-cabinet toning, and not the harsh dark highlights that the picture suggests. However, it&#039;s wayyy more in focus than ever before.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d also need some kind of lightbox.&nbsp; But I&#039;m not good at DIY, and unless I bought a pre-made one from someone or bought an expensive, professional one, I&#039;m in a pickle about that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The background is a white piece of paper. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1696535[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1696536[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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