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<p>[QUOTE="RonSanderson, post: 25914212, member: 77413"]I have a picture of my setup in this post <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-coin-photography-set-up.229658/page-9#post-2949112" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-coin-photography-set-up.229658/page-9#post-2949112">Post your coin photography set-up</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The camera stand, the camera, and the coin all sit on a little turntable. There are two Ikea lights up near the lens, at the 10 and 2 o’clock positions. A third light is very low to remove a shadow at the left side of the head.</p><p><br /></p><p>I rotate the coin through 9 positions by hand, covering about a 90 degree rotation. Then I crop the photos, join the obverse and reverse pairs, then join those 9 images into an animation. There is more information in the referenced thread as well as <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/animation-and-coin-photography.297411/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/animation-and-coin-photography.297411/"><font size="4">Animation and Coin Photography</font></a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RonSanderson, post: 25914212, member: 77413"]I have a picture of my setup in this post [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-coin-photography-set-up.229658/page-9#post-2949112']Post your coin photography set-up[/URL] The camera stand, the camera, and the coin all sit on a little turntable. There are two Ikea lights up near the lens, at the 10 and 2 o’clock positions. A third light is very low to remove a shadow at the left side of the head. I rotate the coin through 9 positions by hand, covering about a 90 degree rotation. Then I crop the photos, join the obverse and reverse pairs, then join those 9 images into an animation. There is more information in the referenced thread as well as [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/animation-and-coin-photography.297411/'][SIZE=4]Animation and Coin Photography[/SIZE][/URL].[/QUOTE]
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