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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1273886, member: 19463&quot;]There are too many answers to the sharpness question to pick just one.&nbsp; &nbsp; Autofocus lenses can pick up a highlight on a proof surface and focus not on the surface of the coin but on something reflected in the little mirror.&nbsp; Usually if that happens you just shoot again and it will focus differently.&nbsp;&nbsp; I believe this quarter is actually out of focus but over half the fuzzy coin photos I see are victims of camera shake rather than focus error.&nbsp; Flimsy tripods can be worse than no support.&nbsp;&nbsp; Few modern cameras have really good manual focus screens that make it easy to do fine focus.&nbsp; I use auto focus and it works for me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Copy stands can be needlessly expensive.&nbsp; I recently made one that came in under $5 or free if you consider that everything used was in my garage scrap bins except for the screws and tripod bolt which I had in stock from buying a bunch years ago.&nbsp; You can kid yourself that you need a full service copy stand but all you want for coins is a way of holding the things in a constant relation to each other.&nbsp; If your photos are better than the ones on my page, it is not because your copy stand cost more.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez.html" rel="nofollow"></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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