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Message:: [QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4194920, member: 72790"]I started my photography wit a Kodak Brownies and Verichrome Pan film in the mid 1950's. Rangefinder 35 mm in the 60's, SLR's in the 70's, digital SLR's beginning in 2005. Since I was using Nikons and Canons as film cameras at the time, I could retain and use their lenses on the digital bodies (mostly). My main subject was railroad photography and not too much call for macro (or micro) lenses there.On occasion I did some macro photography of coins, even in film days, and with good lighting and lenses got excellent results. Only recently in the past few years have I gone to the cell phone and that was because it is so easy to get them on line and reproduced on sites like this one. Can I duplicate the fine images I could get from my SLR's from my cell phone? No, not quite, but good enough if I take my time. My avatar was taken with my cell phone and all of my images on this site are with my phone. What I have found is essential is holding that cell phone still when taking the image and this I do, simply, by placing four or five books onto a pile, place the coin to be imaged along side the pile, the cell phone on the top and one can then press down a bit on the phone which holds it steady as you activate the "shutter". As for lighting my preference is natural and filtered sunlight. Try a thin, filmy curtain on the window from which the sunlight enters onto the posed coin. When I photograph with no sun available I use two lamps near to each other, one fluorescent, one incandescent to create a blended light. Bottom line. Unless you are imaging for professional use, you can get images quite good enough, almost the equivalent of the DSLR, and just fine for purposes of displaying your coins on a site like Coin Talk.[/QUOTE]

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