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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sturmgrenadier, post: 1096908, member: 18711&quot;]So I was visiting a friend today and talked to him about my new interest in taking pictures of my coins to share online. I mentioned some of the problems I&#039;ve had (pictures coming out too dark,etc.). He suggested I try using a scanner. Actually, he was nice enough to give me an old Canon LIDE 20 and a USB cable (that he bought about seven years ago). I thanked him and took them home. Being pretty computer-illiterate, I was not optimistic about getting it to work. This evening, I went to the Canon website and was able to download and install the software and drivers. I was very excited when I hit the &#039;Scan&#039; button and the contraption whirred and came to life (I&#039;ve never used a scanner before, so I felt a little like the proverbial &#039;kid in a candy store&#039;). My problem is that no matter how much I play around with the controls (either on the scanner itself or the user interface on the computer screen), I can&#039;t get the images of PCGS and NGC slabbed coins to focus properly. They always come out somewhat blurry with the coin identifiable and the words on the label being legible but far from sharp. I&#039;ve looked for a &#039;focus button&#039; on the scanner and on the CanonScan toolbox (a type of user interface where I hit the &#039;Scan&#039; button). But, alas, none exists. The default editing software that my scanned images open up in is called &#039;Microsoft Photo Editor&#039;. Again, there is no tool that allows me to bring the coin image into better focus. I&#039;ve noticed that when I put a raw coin on the scanner, the images come out much sharper. So apparently sharpness is a function of the distance between the coin&#039;s surface and the scanner surface. Since I can&#039;t take the coin out of the slab to let it lie flat on the scanner surface (well obviously I could, but I don&#039;t want to for obvious reasons), how can I get the image into focus? Perhaps I need a better, newer scanner that has a focus tool? My friend mentioned to me that this was a relatively inexpensive scanner even when he bought it seven or so years ago. So maybe scanning images of things like coins is beyond its capabilities.Any tips or explanations would be greatly appreciated. I apologize in advance for my technical ignorance and ineptitude<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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