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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4643868, member: 19463&quot;]<img src="https://pbase.com/dougsmit/image/105380100.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I have not played with axial since 2008 when I decided that it was less appropriate for most ancient coins than what the article above called &#039;shiney&#039; ones.&nbsp; If anyone wants to try it, do note that the article points out the need for a longer than normal focal length lens.&nbsp; I use the same 100mm f/2.8 Canon shown in the article but when I moved from the crop camera to a full frame Canon I really wish I had bought the 180mm macro which would have given more space between camera and coin.&nbsp; Some of my best coin photos were taken before I bought the macro lens and I was using the 70-200mm zoom which did give better spacing.&nbsp;&nbsp; I never tried that lens with axial.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone tempted to visit my old pages are warned that each was the record of where I was then and is not what I would recommend now.&nbsp; There are ideas to be gleaned from the pages but there is no &#039;How To&#039; to be copied.&nbsp; I have lost control of my old pages so editing them is not likely to happen unless someone can help me with my FTP ignorance.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to do a 2020 photo page but size limits online would erase any improvement in detail.&nbsp; When I try to upload a full image now, Coin Talk returns a &#039;too big&#039; error.&nbsp; This has always been a problem.&nbsp; Twenty years ago I got complaints I was using too large photos and people with 14.4 modems did not like my site at all. I went back and reduced most pictures then but when more people had upgraded their equipment I started using larger photos again.&nbsp; For online purposes, the best cameras are overkill.&nbsp; If you like 20x30&quot; wall hangings, the differences become clear.&nbsp; Lately, I have been reducing my images to 1620x1080 pixels which is still overkill but CT will accept them.&nbsp; That size makes good 4x6&quot; prints but not the really large ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another problem is that few of my coins really benefit from showing all their faults in super high definition.&nbsp; You might consider that also when deciding how far to go with all this.&nbsp; Below is my most recent purchase show in the light from a north facing window and reduced here from 3138 pixels tall to 1080.&nbsp; The coin has no details that require more than that so buying the equipment used was a choice rather than a requirement.&nbsp; Perhaps if your coins are the finest known you may make different choices.&nbsp; Here the feature was to select lighting direction that revealed the very weak legends as best was possible.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1147505[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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