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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 24862080, member: 31533&quot;]Just a quickie announcement, for those who might be interested in why I haven&#039;t and won&#039;t be posting really good pics of coins of mine anymore. </p><p><br /></p><p>I gave away my cameras, etc. that I had. I had a couple of nice camera bodies and an assortment of lenses, carry cases, and other accouterments of this type of interest and had been trying over the last decade to indulge myself in taking pics, not only of normal things people take pics of but also coin photography. </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, things happen in life that interfere with a desired pursuit. </p><p><br /></p><p>In my case it had been, first, an eye problem where I had a retinal detachment in one eye and though successful in getting that re-attached and decent cataract surgery afterwards, gave me a few problems with camera usage, but for the most part I was able to use various reading type glasses to get the focus ok.</p><p><br /></p><p>Afterwards, though, I started having issues with what docs like to call &#039;essential tremor&#039;, which is a rhythmic shaking or tremor, and sometimes only in one part of the body. I had it in my left arm/hand so that impacted things, and for a time just making sure I took lots of images to choose from would give me a good one (in real good focus) or two. I now notice it in both hands and it really is a big impact in trying to hold a camera (or even a phone for it&#039;s camera) steady enough to take a pic.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the tremor did increase to be more, and then back about 5 years ago, my other eye also started having a cataract. I had surgeries on it but for whatever reasons, the outcome was not as good as the first eye as far as being able to see through a camera and have the ability to get a good focused shot. Even with lots and lots of tries. Even with trying to remember to use the better eye to try that with and use varying strengths of reading glasses while I did so. I just could not get the image I saw in focus to translate to a photo in the camera that was also in focus.</p><p><br /></p><p>In short, with a combination of an essential tremor and an inability to correct eyesight to obtain good focused images, and the last few years of less doing things outside, it came to pass that in one of my attempts to do some Swedish Death Cleaning at my house, I realized that my extensive camera stuff was just gathering dust and would never be used the way I had been able to before for me. My daughter had mentioned a few years previous how she would love to have my cameras and so, without telling her, I collected them all together and when she came over for Thanksgiving, I had them all packaged up for her to have. It was her extra birthday/Christmas/big hey, I love you, you can have what you want gift.</p><p><br /></p><p>So she will have to carry on with what she likes to photograph. It is a good thing to pass on what you can at times and I am thrilled she will have that opportunity to express her own vision of photography now. She has never had the &#039;good&#039; cameras or extra lenses, etc. at her disposal before. </p><p><br /></p><p>I will continue, though, to watch others here be able to produce excellent images of their coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>The one thing I did, though, is buy her new SD cards for her use, so she has none of the ones I had used. Which means at some point I may be going through all my images and seeing if there are some I want to keep and share. So if you see really nice ones from me, it&#039;s an older one. Aside from that, any images I now make for coins is likely to be off my phone camera and it isn&#039;t really bad but it&#039;s not really good. Acceptable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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