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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2065172, member: 71234&quot;]Virtually anything will do a good job. Most cameras will do a far better job, if properly used, than you will ever need.</p><p><br /></p><p>The solution is not in the camera but in how you use it, and how well you understand what you are doing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Briefly, you do not need many megapixels, and you do not need vast expense. You should have a lens with macro capability, the ability to focus on nearby objects down to a few inches, and it helps to have a manual setting facility where you can chose aperture and other settings for the peculiar requirements of coin photography.</p><p><br /></p><p>For most people, for most purposes, a fairly simple camera from a good maker will do all that they&#039;d ever get from a top of the line camera at ten times the price, and most lenses will do as good a job as you&#039;d need without spending huge amounts of money on for example, image stabilisation or even autofocus.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is also very difficult, short of physical abuse,to &#039;wear out&#039; a camera.</p><p><br /></p><p>My advice would be a ten year old Canon or Nikon or other reliable make, buyable secondhand for a fraction of the cost of a new equivalent. And not the top models, either.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-Digital-Camera-Eos-10D-With-Accessories-EXCELLENT-Condition-/231451807616?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item35e39a4f80" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-Digital-Camera-Eos-10D-With-Accessories-EXCELLENT-Condition-/231451807616?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item35e39a4f80" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-Digital-Camera-Eos-10D-With-Accessories-EXCELLENT-Condition-/231451807616?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item35e39a4f80</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Picked at random from ebay&nbsp; listings, more than you&#039;d ever need in capability and a fifth of the new price.</p><p><br /></p><p>This advice is by no means exclusive to any particular brand or model, the principle is economy, capability, and most of all, an understanding of what you are doing. It&#039;s the user that matters, not the kit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Use a bit of the money you don&#039;t need to spend on a camera on a decent tripod or camera stand and a couple of lights, because a really rock steady camera will help more than a million dollar lens, and coins can be hard to light for the best appearance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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