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<p>[QUOTE="Siggi Palma, post: 1099401, member: 18255"]Mark, All my pictures are taken using daylight in the windowsill. Then you have that natural colour you are looking for. That is actually what photographers are trying to do with exspensive lighting equipment. But what they do is spread the lighting a little better. </p><p> </p><p>Yellow bulb will always leave a unreal colour on the coin as well as taking our the luster. </p><p> </p><p>I used to use a high end canon camera with macro lense. Was thinking about building a small photobox. But then I tryed my cheap camera ( family one ) and put the coin in the windowsill at noon and the end resault was very good. You can get a better spread on the light using lightbulbs and a photobox but for 0 exspense I say go with the natural daylight. </p><p> </p><p>Some samples</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/4-11.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/1Krona1999.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/50kr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/1914.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/12SK2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Siggi Palma, post: 1099401, member: 18255"]Mark, All my pictures are taken using daylight in the windowsill. Then you have that natural colour you are looking for. That is actually what photographers are trying to do with exspensive lighting equipment. But what they do is spread the lighting a little better. Yellow bulb will always leave a unreal colour on the coin as well as taking our the luster. I used to use a high end canon camera with macro lense. Was thinking about building a small photobox. But then I tryed my cheap camera ( family one ) and put the coin in the windowsill at noon and the end resault was very good. You can get a better spread on the light using lightbulbs and a photobox but for 0 exspense I say go with the natural daylight. Some samples [IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/4-11.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/1Krona1999.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/50kr.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/1914.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/siggipalma/12SK2.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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