intead of buying coins for myself this birthday i decided i should get a new camera as taking coin pics with my phone is infuriating and not always the best quality. these are just test shots so i can get used to the camera settings and see what they look like on the forum. comments welcome good or bad, thank you all
Looking good Calum. What's your lighting setup? The third pic looks a tad dark and the mercury has a golden tinge to it......
the lighting is nothing just a bendy light, i normally like to take pics in daylight but disnt have time to this morning, so thats why they are all a bit dark. the merc has a nice gold toned look and that pic isnt far from how it looks in hand. the camera is nothing fancy either its just a fujifilm j28, cheap enough, but its 10.8 megapixel and has a really good zoom.
Focus looks good. I can suggest some things that will help improve your images: -- you need a "white" light source as others have mentioned; sunlight is good; I use an OTT-LITE with a "white" light bulb -- use a non-reflective black or dark gray background; you want the light your camera sees to be just from the coin; a white background can overpower the light reflected from the coin; this is particularly true when imaging copper coins -- use a camera stand (better than a tripod) for steadiness and a remote shutter release.
I would use a tripod if you can, quite a bit of blur. For the lighting, you could always get a daylight balanced fluorescent and put it in a lamp, works great. Nice shots
heres one i took in daylight this morning. ive figured out timer function on it now so that should do wonders for the blur.