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<p>[QUOTE="Stork, post: 3605757, member: 71642"]The best way to improve photos (which I know in theory but don't put all that much work into it) is more about lighting and stability. The cell phones really do take nice shots and you can stabilize it on a stack of books and trigger it with a $10 (or less) bluetooth remote. A few nice lights and experiment with angles/diffusing material. And that will cost a lot less than a new camera. And, it's not even a super duper camera, but the lens.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that said, I bought one of [USER=31773]@rmpsrpms[/USER] set ups and am very happy with it. It's capable of much more than I put into it and he was able to make a fancier set up so I can do my smallest coins and on up to some of my medals (65mm IIRC). </p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing is software. I can't remember the freebie one that does really well, there's photoshop, and I use an online one called PicMonkey. A simple cropping tool from my laptop, and I can make Christmas cards and things like this I did last night (very simplistic, and yes the coins are really those colors). [ATTACH=full]965385[/ATTACH]</p><p>Not my best work but it was a quickie photo shoot, process, and graphic slap together.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Stork, post: 3605757, member: 71642"]The best way to improve photos (which I know in theory but don't put all that much work into it) is more about lighting and stability. The cell phones really do take nice shots and you can stabilize it on a stack of books and trigger it with a $10 (or less) bluetooth remote. A few nice lights and experiment with angles/diffusing material. And that will cost a lot less than a new camera. And, it's not even a super duper camera, but the lens. Now that said, I bought one of [USER=31773]@rmpsrpms[/USER] set ups and am very happy with it. It's capable of much more than I put into it and he was able to make a fancier set up so I can do my smallest coins and on up to some of my medals (65mm IIRC). The other thing is software. I can't remember the freebie one that does really well, there's photoshop, and I use an online one called PicMonkey. A simple cropping tool from my laptop, and I can make Christmas cards and things like this I did last night (very simplistic, and yes the coins are really those colors). [ATTACH=full]965385[/ATTACH] Not my best work but it was a quickie photo shoot, process, and graphic slap together.[/QUOTE]
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