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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 2097130, member: 29751&quot;]I use LED lights from IKEA (Jansjo) for all of my coin images.&nbsp; They are about as cheap as they come at $9.99 each (for the lamp and all, not just the bulb).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As long as you aren&#039;t using lights of a very narrow wavelength range, the wavelength coverage (temperature) of bulbs doesn&#039;t have all that much bearing on the quality of coin pictures.&nbsp; The white balance settings on your camera are more important than which bulb you use.&nbsp; The LED bulbs I use consistently run at a white balance temperature of 3150K.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think my pictures are pretty decent.&nbsp; A few examples of recent coins I have purchased are below.&nbsp; Again, all taken with Jansjo IKEA LED lamps.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb364/brg5658/Photography-5/1916_Portugal_50C_NGC_MS65_composite_zpsnt9algco.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb364/brg5658/Photography-5/1863_174-272a_NGC_MS65BN_composite_zpsr2b91vgj.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb364/brg5658/Photography-5/1887_Pittsburgh_SonsOfStGeorge_WhiteMetal_NGC_MS65DPL_composite_zpsnbymnpuw.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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