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Message:: [QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 1631504, member: 36248"]Collect89, that Oregon Trail looks positively radiant! I personally use a tripod, macro 50mm lens, d7000 camera  (all of which I owned prior to really being into coin photography).      I think most people will tell you that the lighting is the most important factor, and the hardest factor to control and get right, coin to coin.   Everytime I photograph coins I do something new with the lighting, because I haven't really found the holygrail.     For instance, I have used bounce lighting, reflectors, diffusers, mirrors, glass (as in axial lighting), flash/no flash, goose-neck table lamps, etc.  Sometimes I think my coin pics are okay, and sometime I look at them and think they suck. I think some people here who take AMAZING photos dont even get too fancy with their setups, and some even use phones.    So depending on if you can figure out the lighting, you could save alot of time and money.   I personally love photography as much as coins, so I already had alot invested in hardware, but this is NOT critical to take great photos.   Check out photos by gbroke, wingedliberty, Lehigh96 for inspiration.      I think the best thing to do is just take a ton of coin pics trying different things, and start figuring out what works and what does NOT. good luck. [ATTACH]233268.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]