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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3306474, member: 56859&quot;]It looks more than good enough for a coin forum, Doug.</p><p><br /></p><p>Natural lighting can be very good... but you can&#039;t adjust the angle.&nbsp; Pictures taken in the earlier morning or later afternoon can do marvelous things to enhance the apparent relief of a coin.&nbsp; &nbsp; If you want consistency in your images if you don&#039;t want to have to wait until a day with the perfect amount of cloud cover, and if you don&#039;t want to have to wait until a precise time window for the optimum angle of light, artificial lighting is the way to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>For Christmas I bought myself a new Ott light (on sale, too!).&nbsp; It&#039;s LED rather than fluorescent but so far I&#039;m very happy with it.&nbsp; You can choose between three different color temperatures but the bottom line is that I white balance anyway so the color temperature is less critical.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://products.ottlite.com/images/Product/large/485.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I push the two light heads together for unidirectional lighting or I can split them apart and have the camera between them.&nbsp; The stem of the lamp is very flexible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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