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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 4558767, member: 9270&quot;]After looking at my manual I found that I was shooting at the highest .jpg resolution (JPEG Fine).</p><p>The only thing better is NEF (Raw).</p><p>So I&#039;ll stick with the JPEG Fine.</p><p>But I moved my lens a bit closer to the coin giving me a slightly larger image.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two slabbed coins both graded XF-45.<img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/10hf-1831-LM4-o-65.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/10hf-1831-LM4-r-65.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/10hf-1833-LM8-o-65.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/10hf-1833-LM8-r-65.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a raw coin with the lens slightly closer.</p><p>I grade this as XF-40.</p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/10hf-1829-LM1-o-50.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/10hf-1829-LM1-r-50.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m beginning to think the other images were affected by the slabs.</p><p>But I&#039;m also finding that focusing on the raw coin is a lot easier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line though is that I definitely won&#039;t crack coins out of slabs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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