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<p>[QUOTE="AZSteve, post: 4890586, member: 114396"]I don't normally search for errors or DDs, but I have taken note of known errors > leaky bucket on Homestead, doubled trees on Minnesota, extra leaves on Wisconsin, pooping horse on Nevada, In God We Rust on Kansas, and this on Arizona. I do lots of coin roll hunting, and I only initially and quickly view all coins with a 2x magnifier (73 y.o. eyes), but occasionally pull out the 5x to verify.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the pictures I use a Plugable Digital Microscope (cited elsewhere on this site) on a homemade stand. For most shots I use a poor man's adaptation of Dennis Richard's setup to give even, soft lighting from directly above, shooting through a piece of glass which is at a 45 degree angle between the camera and object. But no room for that on the extreme closeups - there was only about a sixteenth of an inch between the Plugable's shroud and the coin. And the only software I use is the barebones photo editing built into Windows. Total investment less than $50.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AZSteve, post: 4890586, member: 114396"]I don't normally search for errors or DDs, but I have taken note of known errors > leaky bucket on Homestead, doubled trees on Minnesota, extra leaves on Wisconsin, pooping horse on Nevada, In God We Rust on Kansas, and this on Arizona. I do lots of coin roll hunting, and I only initially and quickly view all coins with a 2x magnifier (73 y.o. eyes), but occasionally pull out the 5x to verify. For the pictures I use a Plugable Digital Microscope (cited elsewhere on this site) on a homemade stand. For most shots I use a poor man's adaptation of Dennis Richard's setup to give even, soft lighting from directly above, shooting through a piece of glass which is at a 45 degree angle between the camera and object. But no room for that on the extreme closeups - there was only about a sixteenth of an inch between the Plugable's shroud and the coin. And the only software I use is the barebones photo editing built into Windows. Total investment less than $50.[/QUOTE]
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