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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 114928, member: 1892&quot;]I&#039;ve learned a heckuva lot from this thread. Great stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only other advice I&#039;d give is, when you settle on a camera, play! Take a bazillion pics. Play with every possible setting - run through a range of aperture and exposure. Log everything, so you can see what settings give you what effect in the pic. Different coins photograph differently - copper photographs differently than silver, and silver coins have differing degrees of reflectivity depending on grade and finish. I don&#039;t use the same settings for a circulated Morgan as for a BU one, and die cracks/errors require yet different settings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Along with the camera, get more than one memory card, and a card reader for your computer. That will allow you to review pics from one session, while keeping the camera set up and operational. You don&#039;t need humungous cards - a couple 128&#039;s or 256&#039;s will suffice for this process.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another consideration for someone who takes a lot of pics is a backup process. Do you have a CD or DVD burner? If not, it&#039;s time to get one. Back up your pics regularly, based on how much work you&#039;re willing to have to repeat if your harddrive crashes. I have all my images in two places on my home network, separate harddrives on separate computers. Most are also duplicated on my laptop. I burn two identical backup CD&#039;s a week (well, now they&#039;re DVD&#039;s because of the size of the data) of my important stuff, including pics.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of us are using our computers for significantly-important aspects of our lives - I pay almost all of my bills online - and don&#039;t spend a lot of time considering the ramifications of losing all the data we&#039;ve accumulated. Keep it in mind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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