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<p>[QUOTE="snaz, post: 609301, member: 11315"]Adam,</p><p><br /></p><p>Without seeing sample pictures of your coins it is hard to give you advice.</p><p>But I will just let you know what I do. </p><p>I set my camera on the "P" setting, and set it on "Macro" The little flower shaped logo.</p><p>I then go into the settings and set the picture to the largest size picture available and the highest resolution.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>That is large enough for both side of the coins to be 750 which is plenty large enough to see all the detail.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p>I generally hold the camera about 3" away, and zoom until the autofocus doesn't work anymore. With no tripod.</p><p>Here is a sample of some images.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[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 [URL="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"]paint.net[/URL] 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]
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