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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 8334865, member: 134416&quot;]Thank you.&nbsp; That rig shows me exactly how to do it.&nbsp; I can show it to my neighbor, who is indeed a cabinetmaker - his firm builds and installs custom cabinets and pretty much anything a room needs, and that shouldn&#039;t be that hard.&nbsp; I have posted your very helpful pics to my to-do Word document.&nbsp; Many thanks to Severus Alexander, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>About how long is the arm, and how far from the coin do I want to make screwholes?</p><p><br /></p><p>I am off next week, so maybe I can get together with him.&nbsp; He once gave me one of their &#039;rejects&#039;, which made the perfect nook for a UPS unit.</p><p><br /></p><p>My old time radio hobby doesn&#039;t give me a whole lot of spare time (the shows don&#039;t transfer and clean themselves), but if he can build it and I can buy it, cool!&nbsp; I&#039;m hopeless at building stuff anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was expressing my frustration.&nbsp; There is indeed no point in much further photography until I get the needed supplies. Then I can try again.</p><p><br /></p><p>The camera is a Sony alpha 77 (c. 2012, 24mp).&nbsp; I bought a Tamron lens, which is pretty fast.</p><p><br /></p><p>It takes a really long time to edit together coin photos (even those mediocre tries took a lot of the day), so photographing 30 years worth of coins would be a long-time project.&nbsp; &nbsp; After the great bronze disease debacle of 2000, I&#039;m very skittish about holding coins (even with gloves),especially AE, so that would further limit when I could photograph.&nbsp; Basically when I get up in the morning or a point in the day where my hands are bone dry. I think the main culprit of the BD outbreak was examining the coins close to my face (using a magnifier).&nbsp; I always hold my breath now if I do that, which I usually don&#039;t.&nbsp; About the only time I handle the coins is to rotate them in the flip when the coin arrives.</p><p><br /></p><p>And per the morning, the very best of the tries came in the morning.&nbsp; I also notice that my label pics are also much better in the morning or day.&nbsp; The label pics don&#039;t turn out all that badly.&nbsp; The label pics are mainly for archival information, not so much to have the prettiest photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photos would also remind me of many coins which I&#039;ve forgotten about.</p><p><br /></p><p>And maybe I can start ID&#039;ing coins in the enigmatic bags of Byzantine (probably Bulgarian) trachea and 1st/2nd century As-sized provincials.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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