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<p>[QUOTE="Dearborn, post: 7892885, member: 114601"]Yes, they are still in the OGP caps.</p><p>to keep down on the glare, I have a lamp placed a 6" away from the coin at K-10. In the lamp is an LED bulb that shines straight up and reflect off the white ceiling and back down to the coin. I hold the camera (my android phone in this case) almost directly overhead of the coin, but just slightly towards the K-6. I zoom in to fill the screen and still have it up and far away to let the light on it.</p><p>I'll repost a coin from above but full frame so you can see how the lighting hits the surface. You can see the camera just over the sun on the coin and a bit of the glare curving around the 'B'. If I held the camera more to the right the glare would take over and spoil the shot. Basically the glare will follow the camera just as a very distant object (like a tree) seem to follow you while traveling in a car (or truck).</p><p>Now if you go back and look at all the coins above, you will see the glare is all to the extreme left and almost off the edge.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1362106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dearborn, post: 7892885, member: 114601"]Yes, they are still in the OGP caps. to keep down on the glare, I have a lamp placed a 6" away from the coin at K-10. In the lamp is an LED bulb that shines straight up and reflect off the white ceiling and back down to the coin. I hold the camera (my android phone in this case) almost directly overhead of the coin, but just slightly towards the K-6. I zoom in to fill the screen and still have it up and far away to let the light on it. I'll repost a coin from above but full frame so you can see how the lighting hits the surface. You can see the camera just over the sun on the coin and a bit of the glare curving around the 'B'. If I held the camera more to the right the glare would take over and spoil the shot. Basically the glare will follow the camera just as a very distant object (like a tree) seem to follow you while traveling in a car (or truck). Now if you go back and look at all the coins above, you will see the glare is all to the extreme left and almost off the edge. [ATTACH=full]1362106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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