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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 25398973, member: 4626&quot;]I&#039;ve previously tried using my scanner for pictures of coins; it shows the detail well enough but does really weird things to the color (it&#039;s also terrible for slabbed coins).&nbsp; It&#039;s perfectly suitable to illustrate paper money though, which is what I&#039;ve used to catalog my collection of paper money and fantasy notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Problem with my phone is mainly keeping it still long enough so the picture doesn&#039;t blur too much, but some of the solutions you illustrated would certainly help, thanks.&nbsp; Lighting is always the bane of photographing a reflective surface; it needs to be lit up enough to see it well, but not so much that the light reflects off the surface in a way that makes the detail difficult or impossible to see clearly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no specialized equipment for doing such; what I&#039;ve posted above is about the best I&#039;ve ever managed.&nbsp; Not ideal but at least it shows the coin.&nbsp; I&#039;ve learned to not &quot;let the perfect be the enemy of the good&quot; or else it drives me crazy.&nbsp; At some point I have to accept the limitations of what I can accomplish and say &quot;good enough,&quot; something I&#039;ve have to apply to many things, from taking pictures of coins to applying stickers to Lego sets.&nbsp; Being a borderline-OCD perfectionist makes that a struggle to be sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a digital camera attached to my phone and no other specialized equipment for photography and lighting, and my budget for such is $0.&nbsp; If anyone has any suggestions for taking better pictures of coins with those limitations would love to hear it (that is in no way meant to be taken as sarcasm, I sincerely would love to hear it).&nbsp; I have indeed tried many methods to improve coin pictures and so far with the limitations I have this is the best I&#039;ve managed so far.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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