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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3454276, member: 80804&quot;]Digital microscopes are great for microscopy - for coins, not so much, unless you&#039;re specifically making images of details (closeup of a mint mark, for example) in extreme macro close-up.</p><p>You need some sort of camera with a wider field of vision/focus than most digital microscopes provide.</p><p>Unless you&#039;re taking images which are intended for publishing in glossy-format books, etc, you don&#039;t need a gazillion pixels to take really good, serviceable photos of coins which are 100% appropriate for internet sharing, websites, pasting into emails, etc.</p><p>A significant number of the photos on my website/gallery were shot with a 0.6 megapixel camera. If you&#039;re filling your frame with the image and not taking a shot of a tiny item adrift in a sea of background (which is all excess pixels you will leave on the floor when you crop) a camera doesn&#039;t need to be 15+ megapixels to take good, sharp, detailed coin photos.</p><p>I have to keep telling folks not to send me their raw 15mp shots as they display too big to view without re-sizing. Many cameras with higher pixel-counts allow you to take photos at a lower pixel-density so they don&#039;t produce raw images of such huge size.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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