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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2054763, member: 19463&quot;]Get a ruler and a coin or two and hand hold the camera at a distance that your camera fills the frame with the coins you want to shoot.&nbsp; Measure the distance from the tripod socket to the coin and apply that number to the construction.&nbsp; One great advantage of using the dowel coin support is that you can make a mistake and make the spacing too large and then correct it by using a longer dowel.&nbsp; You can even have a set of dowels of different lengths so the short one gives greater spacing for large coins and the longer one gives shorter for small ones.&nbsp; When you do the measurement, close counts and it is always easy to take it apart and cut off an inch or two if you made it too long the first time.&nbsp; Every camera will be different so I can not give you numbers in inches.&nbsp; The image from my page does give measurements for the rig as shown but that does not mean it will work for your camera unless it is a Canon dSLR with the 18-55 zoom as shown.&nbsp; My example was made with left over scraps of oak flooring.&nbsp; You can use whatever you want or have in your scrap pile.&nbsp; Failing that, you may have to buy $5 worth of lumber.</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/0diag.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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