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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 4887000, member: 31620&quot;]I use a fairly old Canon SLR with a 60mm Macro lens. My depth of field sweet-spot seems to be at F8. I use a single, directional daylight bulb as a light source in a semi darkened room for consistency. I use a light cube to provide diffusion. My images are taken at over a second and so I use a timer. Within the light cube I have a crude stand within which is a black velvet sheet through which I have a rod to raise the coin about 1&quot; from the velvet. My photos are taken RAW and like [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] I use Digital Photography Professional to perform the initial processing before converting the files to .jpg for further processing in GIMP.</p><p><br /></p><p>I scale my images down to 33% of the original size and combine them into a single image.</p><p><br /></p><p>I keep all my RAW files and obverse and reverse .jpg images cropped in at 100% size just in case I want to look at finer details. </p><p><br /></p><p>It has taken me years to adjust my setup to somewhere near what I consider acceptable images of my coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one that I took earlier this month. I noticed that my velvet has become dusty (fluff) which accounted for blemishes in the black background (5 o&#039;clock in backround off-coin on obverse).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_130bs_img.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>I have since changed to fresh velvet and get a cleaner image. </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ur_img.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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