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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;toned_morgan, post: 3406454, member: 97258&quot;]Do you have any bright white lights? If not, I recommend you go and buy three really bright lights with no shades and possibly get some better bulbs to replace. Get the brightest bulbs you can get at a cool white temperature. Then fix the lights to a flat and steady table at 9 o&#039;clock, 12 o&#039;clock, and 3 o&#039;clock. This refers to the positions of the hour times on a clock, so put them directly up, directly to the right and directly to the left. Make sure to get tall lights that can be maneuvered around. Put the lights as high as possible to make the lights more defused and spread out over the coin. For these types of coins, you don&#039;t want bright white, but you want more like bands or strips of luster to radiate over the surface. As Dave said, you want the lowest ISO, which tends to be around 100. Plus with the 50 mm lens, you should be able to get good detail even with your 13 megapixel camera. Hopefully you have a tripod for the camera, but it doesn&#039;t seem like it from the shakiness in the second set of pictures. If not, don&#039;t bother buying a $100 tripod, just buy a normal $15-25 tripod WITH THE RIGHT SIZE TRIPOD THREAD for your camera, and that will immensely increase the stability and the quality of the picture. If you have something simple like iPhoto, you can tweak it to make it better. Also if you have an editing software like Photoshop or FireAlpaca (what I use for free), you can color the background to whatever color you want, and if you want to perhaps be &quot;mean&quot;, you can color in the scratches to make it appear better than it really is, but I don&#039;t think you would do that, nor would anyone else on this forum. However, don&#039;t take our advice and stick with it. Keep experimenting, trying different settings, different lenses, lights, colors, etc. I do this and it comes out pretty good...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]904505[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]904506[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]904507[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]904508[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]904509[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]904510[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]904511[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I hope we helped you! Good luck selling them![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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