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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8336638, member: 19463&quot;]The problem with macro is there are ten thousand answers to a thousand questions and as many photographers who actually believe that buying a better camera will help as much as taking ten thousand bad photos. My, old, old, old page even had a drawing that showed measurements to make the stand and a few people actually read those pages.</p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez1.html</a></p><p>And that same page has several sample photos taken with that simple rig.&nbsp; This one used light from a window but one on that page used artificial light.&nbsp; I flop back and forth according to the coin and my mood.</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/0bbnewrack04.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I have no photos of my most recent rig and, since I have not been taking coin photos (no new coins) my old rig has been modified to be better for flowers.&nbsp;&nbsp; Someone mentioned &#039;Cool-Pix&#039; which reminded me that the same page showed a &#039;travel&#039; rig made for my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 990.&nbsp; That camera is, today, a joke and capable of better images than 90% I see.&nbsp; It was what I used when I shot the plates for Victor Failmezger&#039;s Late Roman Bronze Coins book in 2002.</p><p><br /></p><p>These days I am much more into macro of flowers and am anxious for the insects to come out of hibernation and pose on those flowers (preferably while being eaten by other insects).&nbsp; Part of me wants to prop a coin up on a flower and combine hobby photos but that does seem a bit ridiculous.&nbsp; Meanwhile I am being ridiculous taking small parts of flowers for practice.&nbsp; This image shows about a 3mm section of a wild flower and, at the bottom, the camera that took the image.&nbsp; Imagine what a real pro with thousands of dollars worth of gear could do.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1478055[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting coins and photography have several things in common.&nbsp; I believe most important is the fact many of you deny that the guys who grade for NGC Ancients have handled more coins this month than I have in my time in the hobby (before they were born).&nbsp; This makes them &#039;better&#039; at coins than I am.&nbsp; The camera in that photo above was new in 2019 and just rolled over 30,000 images.&nbsp; By many standards, that means it is not quite broken in.&nbsp; Not all of those images were any good but I learned something in the process.&nbsp; If you want to get good at coin photos, take pictures.&nbsp; Take a lot of photos.&nbsp; When you are happy with the results, throw them all out and do it again but better. If it is not worth doing better, is it really worth doing?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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