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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7969714, member: 19463&quot;]While I agree that a macro lens is better, the fact remains that coin photography is very forgiving of aberrations that degrade the corners of the image since round coins do not use that part of the image.&nbsp; I know nothing about micro 4/3 systems but would hope someone makes extension tubes that have electric contacts that would retain full diaphragm operations rather than the manual set linked above.&nbsp; Different lenses work differently when shooting very close but coin photography allows shooting stopped down to a point that makes many faults less of a problem.&nbsp; If shooting flat documents, flat fields are important. For coins, not so much.&nbsp; I have a 100mm Canon macro which is great for all uses but have done equally well with my 70-200 zoom on tubes.&nbsp; A lot depends on what you own for other purposes and how much you want to spend to produce 20x30&quot; prints of 2x3mm sections of a coin. </p><p>I also most strongly prefer to use software to combine images of each side into one file.&nbsp; This is the ancient section so my example is ancient.&nbsp; I have no idea how to shoot coins without removing them from plastic cases.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1382366[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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