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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3453066, member: 80804&quot;]What sort of camera you use is really up to you. Many phone cameras these days actually take reasonably good coin photos - although you&#039;ll want the ability to crop the raw images down to squares and be able to stitch two or more together and save them to files on a desktop or laptop. </p><p>Personally I&#039;m a fan of a few &quot;obsolete&quot; cameras, more than a decade - some two or more decades - old, but they work for me. My #1 camera uses 1.44Mb &quot;floppies&quot; as its recording medium, for example - I&#039;ve taken literally thousands of coin photos with it over the last decade. It has a great lens and the camera&#039;s internal software (firmware?) works very well for coins. It&#039;s a very &quot;forgiving&quot; set up.</p><p>If you go with a camera as a separate unit, almost anything of decent quality you feel confident using will be good.</p><p>What you need to do, no matter how you&#039;re capturing the image, is have a stand of some sort to keep the camera/phone/whatever from unnecessary movement and to have the images of your two sides of a coin or multiple photos of the same or similar coins all come out the same size without the need to adjust them in some post-process. </p><p>You need to have control of your lighting, although pretty much any sort of controllable lamps will do. If you have crane-style or goose-neck, movable and aim-able desk lamps, those are ideal. Also, be aware of your background - it can become a distraction to your image very easily if it&#039;s anything other than a matte, neutral color with no discernable pattern to it. Black, white or neutral 19% gray are probably the best, although solid colors like dark red or blue can be acceptable for various sorts of coins. Gold looks really good on blue, for example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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