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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 697819, member: 19423&quot;]Takes lots of practice, plenty of trial and error. I also bought a copy of Mark Goodman&#039;s Numismatic Photography book which helped some too.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I use a Nikon Coolpix P80, just a $250-$300 or so point and shoot. I think it&#039;s 7 or 8 megapixels, but the most important thing is you need to put the camera in macro mode (has a little flower symbol). Then you zoom in just a tiny bit to bring the coin into the shot, Goodman&#039;s book tells you that having the camera further away from the coin rather than closer is better so that lighting can make it to the coin. After I get the photos off the camera, I&#039;ll sometimes need to fix the white balance in my photo editor, or maybe the brightness if the photo doesn&#039;t look like the coin. Then I cut out the images in photoshop and put them in the template I use. Again, just plenty of trial and error.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1909Sdoubleeagle64.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1909nickel-2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/Aug2009b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1892columbian.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1936wisconsin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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