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Message:: [QUOTE="snaz, post: 609301, member: 11315"]Adam, Without seeing sample pictures of your coins it is hard to give you advice.But I will just let you know what I do. I set my camera on the "P" setting, and set it on "Macro" The little flower shaped logo.I then go into the settings and set the picture to the largest size picture available and the highest resolution.I put the coin on a blue and black background, and shoot from about 3" away with the coin tilted at about 45 degrees or so. I will post pictures of where I take the pictures after this post.I then use <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=paint.net&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=paint.net&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a" rel="nofollow">paint.net</a> to edit my pictures and put the Obverse, reverse, and the slab tag in one picture. and I resize it to 1500 wide.That is large enough for both side of the coins to be 750 which is plenty large enough to see all the detail. I Use two white bulbs with a plastic milk carton over one bulb to diffuse the light, and they are at about 11 and 2 O clock about a foot away from teh coin.I generally hold the camera about 3" away, and zoom until the autofocus doesn't work anymore. With no tripod.Here is a sample of some images.[/QUOTE]