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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 698538, member: 13650&quot;]I take photos of coins on a white sheet of paper under one of these:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/tensor-light.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/tensor-light.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/tensor-light.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; With one of these:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonS3IS/page2.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonS3IS/page2.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonS3IS/page2.asp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It&#039;s a Canon S3 IS and I attach a cheap macro lens onto the front of it for close ups.&nbsp; It works great.&nbsp;&nbsp; Under that light, you can set the custom white balance to the piece of paper.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then it&#039;s just a matter of using the manual focus (button on the left side of the lens, adjust with scroll pad on the back).&nbsp;&nbsp; You can also physically move the camera forward and back to get it to focus.&nbsp; &nbsp; You can adjust the brightness by tapping the directional pad on the back left or right.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I just took a pic of this MS66 38-D/S buffalo nickel last week.&nbsp; It is in an NGC slab.&nbsp; These shots were without a tripod and taken at a slight angle so I didn&#039;t block the light.&nbsp;&nbsp; IS stands for Image Stability so you can get away with it (without the tri-pod) reasonably well.&nbsp; I admit they are a bit out of focus though. :</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f203/vessxpress1/Coin%20Album1/IMG_0687.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f203/vessxpress1/Coin%20Album1/IMG_0688.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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