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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2696744, member: 77413&quot;]Thank you. I would have thought that a long run of bright shiny ungraded pennies, spanning a century, would have become &quot;same old, same old&quot;. But the photography makes me attend to each one individually. I get an appreciation for them that goes beyond picking them up and looking.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am amazed at how many things I have learned from this set. There are variations in color, in strike, surface texture, between copper and zinc, in the size of the dates, toning and woodiness, and die cracks and other errors. You can see the design evolve little by little as the master hubs wear down and then are (eventually) replaced.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I like the pictures, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>My setup has some serious compromises (see below), so I don&#039;t really see the pictures in focus until I load them from the camera to the computer. So a photo like the proof above is a pure delight to me!</p><p><br /></p><p>My photo setup only lets me route the camera&#039;s rear display onto my monitor, with very poor resolution. The coin image is never in focus until I press the shutter. I can&#039;t get close enough to use more than 1/3 of the sensor. I change exposure by twisting a dial on the camera, and guessing when the highlights are too bright. I can move the coin around to change where the light falls, but have to guess how the final shot will turn out.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]606057[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So I am as delighted as anyone about getting to see these and make a few remarks about what I see. Maybe it will turn me from a collector into a numismatist?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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