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<p>[QUOTE="BadThad, post: 931407, member: 17261"]I have a couple Canons but I prefer my SD700IS for coins. What model do you have? One stupid thing Canon did is remove the ability to zoom while in macro mode. My old 770 zooms up to 4x while in macro mode whereas my SD880IS will not permit zooming in macro mode. DUMB!</p><p> </p><p>Optical zoom is a powerful tool in coin photograpy because it lets me get more light to the coin by holding the camera further away. I typically use a zoom between 2.2 and 3.4x. It also lets me take very close pictures of surface features like die cracks and doubled device areas. If your camera allows it, use zoom and camera distance to fill the frame...this will reduce or eliminate cropping.</p><p> </p><p>White balance adjusts the camera so your colors are more accurate, i.e. white is truly white. I really dislike anything but a white background for coins. A lot of people here recommend black, yea, it looks "sexy", but it makes it IMPOSSIBLE for me to guage their white balance. When white balance is off, all of the coins colors are off too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BadThad, post: 931407, member: 17261"]I have a couple Canons but I prefer my SD700IS for coins. What model do you have? One stupid thing Canon did is remove the ability to zoom while in macro mode. My old 770 zooms up to 4x while in macro mode whereas my SD880IS will not permit zooming in macro mode. DUMB! Optical zoom is a powerful tool in coin photograpy because it lets me get more light to the coin by holding the camera further away. I typically use a zoom between 2.2 and 3.4x. It also lets me take very close pictures of surface features like die cracks and doubled device areas. If your camera allows it, use zoom and camera distance to fill the frame...this will reduce or eliminate cropping. White balance adjusts the camera so your colors are more accurate, i.e. white is truly white. I really dislike anything but a white background for coins. A lot of people here recommend black, yea, it looks "sexy", but it makes it IMPOSSIBLE for me to guage their white balance. When white balance is off, all of the coins colors are off too.[/QUOTE]
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