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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3891180, member: 77814&quot;]To put it in more laymans terms ... let&#039;s look at your image</p><p>(a) first, we know you have a singular light source, undiffused (more on that later) coming from the 11 o&#039;clock position.</p><ul> <li>This bright light is creating what is called a Direct and &quot;harsh&quot; light. If you look at the inside on the rim you can see how bright it is.&nbsp; You really cannot discern the shape of the inside rim at all.</li> <li>Now if you look in the top left you have the same problem with the coin&#039;s surface.</li> <li>And thus we have the same problem on the left side of each number in the date.&nbsp; The bright, reflective light obscures any ability of determining anything on that edge.</li> <li>Opposite the date number&#039;s it&#039;s a dark shadow, thus making it unable to determine anything there too.</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]1026701[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>With lighting it becomes really easy:</p><ul> <li>Go to a room that has bright lighting.&nbsp; Bright as in &quot;bright&quot; but nothing direct (ie, do not point a flash light at it).&nbsp; Remember we&#039;re not talking bright for your &quot;eyes&quot; but bright for a camera sensor.&nbsp; This does a few things (a) provides bright light, which (b) keeps shutter speeds fast which helps prevent blurriness from movement.</li> <li>put the coin on a piece of white or black construction paper, or copy paper.&nbsp; Yes paper, something with NO pattern on it.&nbsp; Patterns can confuse auto focus systems.</li> <li>If there is a light pointed directly towards the coin it HAS to be DIFFUSED. ie, something as simple as a piece of paper in front of the light (of which the light shoots THROUGH), square from a white shower curtain.&nbsp; Or even better, multiple lights Bounced off of a white piece of foam (that are in boxes when you buy something larger), or even white paper.&nbsp; If you look up what a &quot;light box tent&quot; is you&#039;ll get the idea.</li> </ul><p>Using a cell phone is fine.&nbsp; If you follow the rules above you can get excellent images.&nbsp; The major mistake people make with a cell phone are:</p><ul> <li>Too close, and thus the camera cannot focus properly.&nbsp; Look at the images.&nbsp; Use &quot;cropping&quot; to make the images larger, not getting way too close.</li> <li>put the cell camera on a box pointed down. Many ppl cannot hold a cell camera completely still (one thinks they can, but they really cannot if the light is poor).</li> </ul><p>Hope that helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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