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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;qualityrarecoin, post: 1532493, member: 40363&quot;]Yeah see I have spent a couple of hours tweaking my lights to bring out the most well lit look of the coin, I&#039;ve tried different light bulb types, and let me share with what I&#039;ve learned from doing it.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Halogen Lightbulbs</b> for me are my top pick when it comes to me doing quick shots of my coins and their slabs mainly because of the brightness of them. I like Halogen bulbs because they are noticeably brighter so at least I can tone down the exposure by lowering the ISO and other settings of the camera. The drawback to Halogens through what I&#039;ve experienced, are they get hot, real hot. <i><b>8/10</b></i>, brighter light flow, but hot.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Incandescent:</b> I&#039;ve used regular 60 watt incandescent light bulbs and didn&#039;t like how dull the light flow was. I tried a combination of one Halogen and two Incandescents and wasn&#039;t really getting the exposure I was looking for. The coin came out pretty dull and had to do a lot of editing after to make it look somewhat like the actual coin did. Just by themselves, my experience with these bulbs hasn&#039;t been too great. <i><b>5/10</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Compact Fluorescent:</b> I really like these light types, they are bright and cool in temp, but not as bright as Halogens, but also a lot cooler than Halogens. I am currently using two of them in Two gooseneck lamps with One Halogen overhead light. This combination really brings out the color and the surfaces of the coin real nicely.&nbsp; <i><b>7/10</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>I still have to work on my angling of the lights in general, try different combos, mess around with the certain levels and settings, but I think once the D90 comes in, at least I can start fresh on a new camera and work with something ergonomically speaking which feels overall better in my hands than the XSI does.</p><p><br /></p><p>Question... How high do some of you raise your lights in feet? My goosenecks are about a foot high above the copy stand, maybe I should try getting some table lamps with longer necks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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