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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 22044091, member: 13650&quot;]I use a copy stand with four 5000k track light bulbs (so light is directed down and not 360 degrees ) at the corners and will use anywhere from two to four bulb combos depending on the coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; Canon T3i mounted on it with an adustable bellows and either a Schlecter componon-S lens or a Nikon lens I got.&nbsp; The lens that came with the camera just doesnt cut it for coin work.&nbsp; Need the adjustable bellows.&nbsp; I also created a photo box using cardboard and white paper.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; I used to use a remote shutter and just judge image quality on camera screen, but then I decided to hook up an old laptop to it which works really well with the Canon software.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can zoom in on a spot and then adjust the lens manually until two numbers in a date are as sharp as your eye can tell on a full size computer screen.&nbsp; Then when you close that window, the full image adjusts to being very sharp.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wish I would have used the laptop method and software from the start.&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s a shutter button at the upper right corner of the window to control the camera remotely.&nbsp;&nbsp; Can touch the screen or click it with the mouse to snap pic. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; For post editing software I use photoscape.&nbsp;&nbsp; A free option you can download.&nbsp; It&#039;s very good and basically a free photoshop.&nbsp;&nbsp; I mainly use it to crop and sometimes auto adjust to reduce noise or take out the yellow hue, but I don&#039;t always use that.&nbsp; Depends on the coin.&nbsp; &nbsp; Even with all of this, some coins are extemely difficult to get a good picture of.&nbsp; &nbsp; No light combo and no angle seems to work.&nbsp; &nbsp; Some toning I&#039;ve found impossible to capture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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