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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2540712, member: 1892&quot;]Keep in mind, <b>every one of us</b> who uses dSLR&#039;s with dedicated lenses for coin photography starts out with an image like this before posting. Justin is using a Full Frame (35mm sensor) camera, giving him a vertical pixel capacity (defining the coin&#039;s largest-possible diameter on the sensor) of over 4900 pixels. That&#039;s nearly double the 2592 sensor vertical of my Rebel XS, but using similar lenses (and shooting RAW as well), there&#039;s very little sharpness difference between the two. Either way, one must drastically downsize the image before it&#039;s even usable online.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why I&#039;m constantly harping on the dSLR/bellows/duplicating lens system for imagery. Not only do they do full-coin images of <i>staggering</i> quality, they eliminate both the need for a specialized microscope for detail images, <b>and</b> for a separate magnifying instrument for roll searching. </p><p><br /></p><p>And if you don&#039;t have the stomach to drop $1500 on a full-frame camera like Justin (who has other photography interests, and can easily justify such a nice piece of kit), you can come down towards my end of the system and spend ~$100 on a used camera and ~$40 on a lens. And get essentially the same results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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