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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4650850, member: 19463&quot;]I have no experience with anything Apple but borrowed my wife&#039;s Samsung Android tablet to &#039;experience&#039; taking a coin photo.&nbsp; My first attempt was done by laying the tablet on a white cardboard box about 2.5&quot; tall with the camera lens hanging over the edge.&nbsp; At that distance I had to use the electronic crop feature to enlarge the image 2x.&nbsp; Using a 1.5&quot; box would not allow focus and really made it dark under there.&nbsp; All this was outside under shade on a moderately bright day. Touching the screen focused on the coin and touching the shutter took a photo (first below).&nbsp; I did not like the uneveness of the light but there was not much room for light to reach the bottom of the coin.&nbsp; I decided a diffuser might help so I draped the Aldi&#039;s grocery ad over it and tried again producing the bottom image.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1148605[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I trust you all realized my major error here.&nbsp; I used a color ad rather than a white paper.&nbsp; Had I used normal newsprint rather than a color ad, the bottom photo would not has taken on that red cast.&nbsp; Dumb mistake!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This shows what you might expect from this tablet in the hands of a new user on this day with this coin.&nbsp; The image is rather degraded by the 2x &#039;fake&#039; zoom.&nbsp; I wish I had tried one without it and cropped the image but I did not.&nbsp; Obviously I would improve with practice but I&#039;m not going to practice.&nbsp; I have several perfectly good cameras purchased over the last 20 years that are capable of better images.&nbsp; My wife likes her tablet but never uses it for photos.&nbsp; I don&#039;t own one and probably won&#039;t.&nbsp; eBay is overrun with used digital cameras that claim to be working starting at $10 with at least that much for shipping.&nbsp; I&#039;d look for a used one locally where you can talk to the previous owner or get help from a camera shop.&nbsp; My 2006 original Digital Rebel from Canon still works.&nbsp; If the three DSLR&#039;s that upgraded it were to stop working, I know I could do better than with the tablet mostly because I am a camera person not a phone/tablet person.&nbsp; Learn whichever seems right to you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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