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<p>[QUOTE="Suarez, post: 3325767, member: 99239"]It's a competent shot and it works for this type of coin. However, it is not color corrected (unless the coin is actually brown). This is a tough one to do unless you know the color temperature of the LED lights. Of course, seeing that it's silver you could just desaturate the image but that's the lazy approach - and it would only work with silver obviously.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also see a little softness which (I'm really only guessing) could be camera shake. If your camera has the option enable the shutter delay to give it a second or two to to stabilize after pushing the shutter button.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a test, can you try taking a photo of a quarter and see how that goes?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Suarez, post: 3325767, member: 99239"]It's a competent shot and it works for this type of coin. However, it is not color corrected (unless the coin is actually brown). This is a tough one to do unless you know the color temperature of the LED lights. Of course, seeing that it's silver you could just desaturate the image but that's the lazy approach - and it would only work with silver obviously. I also see a little softness which (I'm really only guessing) could be camera shake. If your camera has the option enable the shutter delay to give it a second or two to to stabilize after pushing the shutter button. As a test, can you try taking a photo of a quarter and see how that goes?[/QUOTE]
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