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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 26613084, member: 134416&quot;]My new photography station provided me with a better workspace and more light. The above pics were actually large breakthroughs.&nbsp; I discovered that on my Samsung Note 20 Ultra&#039;s manual mode, the focus was still on auto.&nbsp; Changing it to manual helped.</p><p><br /></p><p>I get the photography terms mixed up.&nbsp; Is the 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, etc number the f-stop?&nbsp; I kept the ISO at 80, which is what I use on people, and for the very dark coins, I bumped up the exposure.</p><p><br /></p><p>In all cases the 0.4 number provided the best focus (the green highlights were the strongest and I could see that the preview was more in focus.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure if I have to manually fiddle with that every time to achieve focus, as a small provincial was fuzzy after I kept it on the smae number and didn&#039;t fiddle.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A true breakthrough won&#039;t happen until I get a lightbox, but I&#039;m not good at DIY.&nbsp; It&#039;d also be expensive to get a macro lens for my Sony alpha 77, and although the camera takes pin-sharp detail, it&#039;s an old camera, and the next camera I&#039;d get would be a canon or Nikon so I could use more lenses.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I don&#039;t acquire many unphotographed coins it doesn&#039;t make a lot of sense to invest a lot of money into it.&nbsp; Like with the junky coins, even the best photographer in the world couldn&#039;t make them look super-great.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse of the A2 is wayyy more faint in person.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve kind of missed the window for photography today.&nbsp; I only like to try (and I still wear gloves) when my hands are very dry, and that&#039;s only a small window of time.&nbsp; I&#039;m less strict on AV and AR, but I don&#039;t like to handle AE&#039;s otherwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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