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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 6443595, member: 105098"]I use a magnifier app called flash to torch, which works ok for a single picture, then it has trouble focusing until you back out and start over for another picture, but as frustrating as it is, it serves the purpose quite well. I bought a little $5 cellphone tripod also, because I didn't like the balancing act I was trying to pull off any other way. also some of it can be the camera focusing on the wrong thing, so like a non-textured background, like a solid color like Kevin Mader shows is a good idea and sometime resting the coin on a soda bottle cap to move it into the foreground helps to get it to focus on the coin instead of a glare, or a texture or something else, </p><p><br /></p><p>for instance, if I have my finger in a shot 100% it's focusing on my fingerprint texture instead of the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>first two pictures of coin #3 are fine, I didn't need the close up to see it was a rim cud even, but the closeup seems to be trying to focus on the glare off jeffersons forehead. </p><p><br /></p><p>Plus I can click on #3 Jefferson obverse and it blows up really nicely to boot![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 6443595, member: 105098"]I use a magnifier app called flash to torch, which works ok for a single picture, then it has trouble focusing until you back out and start over for another picture, but as frustrating as it is, it serves the purpose quite well. I bought a little $5 cellphone tripod also, because I didn't like the balancing act I was trying to pull off any other way. also some of it can be the camera focusing on the wrong thing, so like a non-textured background, like a solid color like Kevin Mader shows is a good idea and sometime resting the coin on a soda bottle cap to move it into the foreground helps to get it to focus on the coin instead of a glare, or a texture or something else, for instance, if I have my finger in a shot 100% it's focusing on my fingerprint texture instead of the coin. first two pictures of coin #3 are fine, I didn't need the close up to see it was a rim cud even, but the closeup seems to be trying to focus on the glare off jeffersons forehead. Plus I can click on #3 Jefferson obverse and it blows up really nicely to boot![/QUOTE]
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