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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2360015, member: 19463&quot;]I have used the cloud globe type of rig but it requires the same care to avoid glares and bad direction with other forms.&nbsp; My camera rig resides in a closet which simulates the effect if you bounce lights off the sides and top.&nbsp; I feel many coins are better not being lighted but just being in a room that has a lot of light bouncing all over the place.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1970 I read an article in Grossbild Photo Techniq magazine issue 4-70 (the house mag of the Linholf camera company.&nbsp; It detailed using a 5x7 view camera for ancient coin photos.&nbsp; The illustrations were really impressive and started me wanting to take coin photos like that.&nbsp; Later, when I did own a 5x7 view, I had sold most of my coins so it was more years before I got into coin photos in a serious way.&nbsp; Today I can do as well with a good digital using many of the same ideas shown there.&nbsp; Photo was harder in 1970 and harder still in 1870.&nbsp; It was ridiculously hard in the 1850&#039;s when this photo below was taken.&nbsp; I ask to see any photograph you may know of showing ancient coins before this still life stereoview from c.1858.&nbsp; It is French.&nbsp; The bracelet in front of the stereoviewer at the lower left appears to be coins of Postumus or something similar.&nbsp; I do not own a close up coin photo before 1900 but they do exist.&nbsp; I really would like to know when someone first tried to fill their negative with an ancient coin.&nbsp; I know this is not much of a &#039;coin photo&#039; but no one has shown me anything to compete with it and I have been asking for years. </p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinster.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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