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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 8342125, member: 105571&quot;]Smartphones can take perfectly adequate photos for our purposes here if you follow some basic rules:</p><p><br /></p><p>1)&nbsp; Make sure you have adequate lighting.&nbsp; Sometimes just the daylight on the windowsill is enough.&nbsp; Check your photo, though.&nbsp; If you can&#039;t see what you&#039;re trying to show due to inadequate light, then how can you expect us to see it?</p><p><br /></p><p>2)&nbsp; If it&#039;s in a carboard 2x2 or a mylar flip, remove it to photograph it.</p><p><br /></p><p>3)&nbsp; Place your smartphone on an improvised stand of some sort.&nbsp; A bunch of books works fine and add a weight on the phone to keep it stable.</p><p><br /></p><p>4)&nbsp; If you&#039;re using autofocus and the coin is in a slab, make sure the camera is focusing on the coin and not the surface of the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>5)&nbsp; Use the delayed shutter control function on your smartphone camera function.&nbsp; This will ensure that the photo doesn&#039;t suffer from &quot;hand jitter&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>6)&nbsp; Don&#039;t get too close to the coin.&nbsp; Most phones don&#039;t really have a &quot;macro function&quot; built into them and if you get too close the photo will suffer with its focus.&nbsp; Experiment with trying to fill the available space but not make the focus suffer.&nbsp; An out-of-focus photo is useless!</p><p><br /></p><p>7)&nbsp; Previous comments regarding backgrounds and cropping apply.</p><p><br /></p><p>8)&nbsp; Don&#039;t post a thumbnail!&nbsp; Full image, please.&nbsp; If you request our help, then make it easy for us to help you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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