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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 405733, member: 13650&quot;]Use good florescent light or daylight.&nbsp; Not both.&nbsp; Then set your white balance so the camera knows what true white is in that given light.&nbsp; With daylight, it constantly changes with the suns angle.&nbsp; So what you set it at now, won&#039;t be right 15 minutes or so from now.&nbsp; Every time you change lighting scenarios, you should change your white balance for true colors.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Most digital cameras have a custom white balance.&nbsp; Just select custom WB, then zoom in on something pure white in that light and hit (normally) &#039;set&#039;.&nbsp; Now the WB is set.&nbsp; Now you will get the true color of the coin or whatever.&nbsp; You can&#039;t always rely on auto WB.&nbsp; Cameras do not know what true white is in any given light unless you set it for it.&nbsp; All the colors it will produce is based off of this.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Use manual focus and a macro lens if you can.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had good success with this.&nbsp; I have a Canon S3 with 12x zoom and 6 MP.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t focus very well when zooming in on closeups.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s worthless for closeups of coins without the macro lens IMO.&nbsp; And this is a pretty new camera with a reasonable amount of features and manual controls.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Tri-pod will help a lot.&nbsp; Most any modern camera like the S3 has Image stability built in so camera shake isn&#039;t as big of a deal IME.&nbsp;&nbsp; But a tri-pod is the best.&nbsp; You just need a cheap little mini one.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I like using a white background to shoot coins on.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want anything distracting in the picture and it helps reflect light.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Adjust your aperture and ISO setting also if you can.&nbsp; My camera has a histogram on the screen which you just try to get the bulk of the graph in the middle so the light&#039;s right.&nbsp; You may or may not be able to do this but it helps allow you to take pictures in just about any light without needing a flash.&nbsp; Then the pic won&#039;t be too bright or too dark.&nbsp; You won&#039;t overexpose pics in high light.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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