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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LA_Geezer, post: 2849307, member: 89393&quot;]Just got around to this, and thanks for your thoughts. Things are getting a little out of hand for my old brain; I thought I had read everything in this thread, but somehow I missed this.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have a cell phone camera, I have a 2005 Kodak Easyshare Z700. In its day it was probably a good camera in its price range. It&#039;s fairly easy to use and somewhat versatile, but I have not been able to take a closeup photo that would even begin to compare with the many that can be seen here or in many eBay auctions. (I say many auctions, but there are times when I wonder if the seller isn&#039;t deliberately posting a very poor picture to keep the actual condition of a coin from potential bidders. But that&#039;s another story.) I suppose that if you did a search on&nbsp; &quot;Z700&quot; at this forum you would find the several posts I have made discussing this camera — and some even providing photos of it. </p><p><br /></p><p>The owner&#039;s manual&#039;s description of how to take closeups might not be the clearest writing, but among the specifications listed in the appendix it reads that the focus system in the &quot;macro, wide&quot; mode has a range of 2-27.6&quot; and 9.8-27-6 in &quot;macro, tele&quot; mode. I have been successful with the macro, tele mode but at a distance of 9.8&quot; from a coin as large as, say, an ASE, there&#039;s still a smaller image of the coin than is useful. [USER=33176]@Kentucky[/USER] has been quite helpful to me on a number of things, and as recommended a photo processing program to me that I can download for free, so I may be able to crop and enlarge a segment of my original image. Of course, you can only go so far before the definition deteriorates. This is, after all, only a 4 megapixel camera, so it can be outdone by even the most average of smart phones today. Member [USER=77413]@RonSanderson[/USER] has been encouraging, too, but maybe the learning and visuals get a little tougher when you get to be as old as I am.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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