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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeepfreak81, post: 3032416, member: 93888&quot;]Had a few minutes on Lunch break so thought I&#039;d check in.&nbsp; I got the scope sort of for fun and to take really close pictures when/if I ever discover an error coin or something like that.&nbsp; But, I&#039;m building some spreadsheets to catalog my collection and was thinking this would be a really easy way to get images of all my coins.&nbsp; For this particular reason, I don&#039;t need very high quality and the scope is attached directly to the laptop making things easy.&nbsp; This is my reason for asking about the scope.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, I&#039;m intrigued and interested about using my DSLR to take nicer pictures on a few coins I have now and of any better ones I get in the future.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I like that wood flooring setup you have there.&nbsp; How does the camera mount?&nbsp; Do you have a tripod type mount attached somehow?</p><p><br /></p><p>I had some diopters from hoya a while back for my Nikon 35mm that I could stack and they worked OK.&nbsp; I hadn&#039;t really heard of extension tubes, that&#039;s something to look into I suppose.&nbsp; A setup like this might work for me, my biggest issue is having somewhere to do this, space is limited in my house with 3 kids and the youngest being a 2 year old that loves to get into everything.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m ashamed to say I&#039;ve forgotten the exact model of my camera as I havent&#039; had it out for quite a while but it&#039;s in the EOS Rebel series, I think it&#039;s a step up from the XS, if I recall it&#039;s over 12 MP.&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to get it out tonight and see.&nbsp; I have the kit lens and a telephoto for it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was able to focus and play around with some close ups where the lighting wasn&#039;t as much of an issue.&nbsp; But when taking full coin shots with the scope they just looked flat.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No worries, I welcome all input, I&#039;m sort of a glutton for info.&nbsp; But you are right, I&#039;m mostly interesting in taking full coin images right now.&nbsp; I&#039;m entertaining the idea of building some sort of rig to use my dslr if I can find a good way to set it up in my house.</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s the preferred background? paper, cloth, black, white?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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