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<p>[QUOTE="Nathan B., post: 7985673, member: 112852"]I now have a $30 USD pair of extension tubes (10 mm and 16 mm) with electronic contacts for my older Micro Four Thirds camera. I am about a meter away from a window with daylight coming through. </p><p><br /></p><p>When using the extension tubes, the first thing I noticed is that I had to extend my kit lens (14-42 mm) all the way in order to see the coin in focus. Another thing I noticed is that with both extension tubes on the camera, the flash is unable to reach more than the top quarter of the coin's surface, meaning that I was unable to use it. And finally, despite using a tripod and a ten-second self timer, the images are nowhere near as sharp as I'd like them to be. These technical deficiencies on my part meant that I ended up trying to compensate by aiming for an artsy-fartsy creative black and white portrait type image instead of an ordinary coin photo:</p><p><br /></p><p>My latest numismatic tributes to Julia Domna, underexposed on purpose, but even so, probably excessively:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385663[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Taken with: my older MF4/3 camera (Panasonic G3 with kit lens (14-42 mm); with Meike 16 mm and 10 mm extension tubes. Monochrome. Detail of the image below:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385673[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>--</p><p><br /></p><p>And a less underexposed one below..</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385671[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Below, (most of) the reverse. I see now that I should have moved the coin so that the left was not cut off.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385674[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is sitting on a piece of velvet that, now matter how many times I take lint-remover to, still seems determined to hold on to bits of dust. </p><p><br /></p><p>Today's mission: I must come up with something to raise the coin above the velvet. And I still want to figure out how to get a sharper image.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nathan B., post: 7985673, member: 112852"]I now have a $30 USD pair of extension tubes (10 mm and 16 mm) with electronic contacts for my older Micro Four Thirds camera. I am about a meter away from a window with daylight coming through. When using the extension tubes, the first thing I noticed is that I had to extend my kit lens (14-42 mm) all the way in order to see the coin in focus. Another thing I noticed is that with both extension tubes on the camera, the flash is unable to reach more than the top quarter of the coin's surface, meaning that I was unable to use it. And finally, despite using a tripod and a ten-second self timer, the images are nowhere near as sharp as I'd like them to be. These technical deficiencies on my part meant that I ended up trying to compensate by aiming for an artsy-fartsy creative black and white portrait type image instead of an ordinary coin photo: My latest numismatic tributes to Julia Domna, underexposed on purpose, but even so, probably excessively: [ATTACH=full]1385663[/ATTACH] Taken with: my older MF4/3 camera (Panasonic G3 with kit lens (14-42 mm); with Meike 16 mm and 10 mm extension tubes. Monochrome. Detail of the image below: [ATTACH=full]1385673[/ATTACH] -- And a less underexposed one below.. [ATTACH=full]1385671[/ATTACH] Below, (most of) the reverse. I see now that I should have moved the coin so that the left was not cut off. [ATTACH=full]1385674[/ATTACH] The coin is sitting on a piece of velvet that, now matter how many times I take lint-remover to, still seems determined to hold on to bits of dust. Today's mission: I must come up with something to raise the coin above the velvet. And I still want to figure out how to get a sharper image.[/QUOTE]
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