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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 4558220, member: 9270&quot;]I just finished imaging all my <u>slabbed</u> Capped Bust half dimes.</p><p>I have 30+ of them.</p><p>The pictures mostly appear to be ... soft, i.e., not quite in focus.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m pretty sure my camera setup is capable of doing better.</p><p>So my question to myself was &quot;Where am I going wrong?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>First Thought:</b> I am taking a coin the size of a dime and enlarging it about 15 times.</p><p>The details on the coin just weren&#039;t created for that, particularly circulated ones.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Second Thought:</b> I need to be more careful with my focusing.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Third Thought:</b> I&#039;m not using the full resolution capability of my camera.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think shooting through a slab is my problem.</p><p>I polished them all before I started.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve decided that the <u>most</u> likely culprit is the resolution I&#039;m using.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m about to start photographing all my <u>raw</u> Capped Bust half dimes.</p><p>I&#039;ll remove them from their 2x2&#039;s before imaging them.</p><p>I&#039;ll increase my camera&#039;s resolution and do about a 10-coin test run.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I won&#039;t do, at least not at this time, is reshoot all the slabbed coins.</p><p>Taking the pictures is easy.</p><p>Editing them consumes large chunks of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll do a followup post about the sort of results I&#039;m getting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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