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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3033868, member: 19463&quot;]Sorry I don&#039;t spend enough time online to keep up here.&nbsp; The cropped image of the fake denarius was shot with the 30D shown in the scrap wood rack photo.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Before I got the 30D, I used a 300D original Digital Rebel which produced the image below&nbsp; For a long time I left the old camera on my coin stand because I was too lazy to change out my better Canon.&nbsp; Later I felt guilty not using the best I had even though the differences would not matter for the uses I made of the images. Click to enlarge. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]756285[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>After that I went to my current (now ten year old) Canon 5D mkII which made the shot below using the same 100mm lens on the same stand but with different light arrangement.&nbsp; Click to enlarge.</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/140670999.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The differences between these images has very little to do with the camera and everything to do with lighting and other processing factors.&nbsp; All of these images were reduced in size and the differences might be more obvious if making a huge print (maybe 20x30&quot;?).&nbsp; A small part of the 5D mkII image is shown unreduced below the reduced composite of the two sides of the coin.&nbsp; Do I need to upgrade to the current model or should I learn to control this one better?</p><p><br /></p><p>Worry less about equipment but learn to use what you have until you are sure that buying something will actually improve your photos.&nbsp; I make better photos some days than on others.&nbsp; I can not blame that on the hardware.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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