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Message:: [QUOTE="biged239, post: 1702087, member: 29948"]Taking photos of existing coin collection. (Large).     You may think that taking pictures of your 10,000 coins is too much of a task to undergo. In the following I will describe how I did it my whole collection in four weeks. I only did four hours on a Saturday morning each weekend, and a couple hours each night during the week. Not everyday. I have a full time Job that requires 60 hours a week. So I do not have an unlimited amount of time for my collection. My collection has the following series date to date with some holes. Large Cents, IHC, Lincoln Cents, Buffalo Nickels, Washington Nickels, Mercury Dimes, Roosevelt Dimes, Walking Liberty Quarter, Washington Quarters, Standing Liberty Halves, Franklin Halves, Kennedy Halves, Morgan Dollars, Ikes, and all Moderns. Type sets, proof sets, and specials. Commemoratives.      1.       First you need a camera setup on a fixed copy stand or camera stand.   2.       Second you need good lighting for photos.  3.       You need to take one series at a time and have it where taking pictures and placing coins back into collection after each obverse and reverse are achieved. I started with Lincoln cents. I have them in 2X2 flips in a note book. I took every 2 X 2 flip and layed them out on a 4’ X 8’ table in order. When I was doing my collection I removed each coin from the 2 X 2 flip took picture and place in a new flip.    4.       I took each coin starting with the 1909 took the picture obverse and reverse and placed it back where it came from in the note book.   5.       The camera is going to assign a picture ID to each picture and there is no description, so I take each obverse and reverse back to back. This will make it so you can have a way to know which reverse is that coin. Once the first coin is focused you should be able to just take pictures without doing anything on the camera but set timer and push button. I always use the 2 second timer so there is no movement.  6.       When doing slabs and plastic you will need to tilt the slab a little front to back to help with glare and scratches.   7.       After I have taking the pictures of one series, I download those pictures into a folder on my desktop in a folder made for that series. Open that folder and start opening the pictures one at a time with your photo software example: (Microsoft Picture Publisher). Make another folder for that series so you have a place to put each picture after you crop and resize pictures. Example folder name Lincoln Cents 1909-1958. After you have all series of pictures with description you now can link to your catalog. I use Excel so the picture folder and my Excel catalog have to be in the same folder so I can link them to a column in Excel. Other software will have a help folder for doing this task.  8.       Cataloging the pictures for me was fast and easy. I would click a space beside the coin log right click. Go down to hyperlink, and choose the picture, click and done the picture was there. This is of course if you already have a catalog. If not then this may have to be done as you build a catalog.     I  I have my coin collection catalog on my desk top computer. So at night I have my laptop on my lap while watching Television, and I work on my pictures and catalog.     This is a very condensed description and there are things that with smaller space to work in and other factors that will add to how easy or hard this might be. Once you have the pictures and catalog setup you will find that the hard work is worth it.   Thanks Biged[/QUOTE]

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