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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2865707, member: 88829&quot;]In all probability, dust is only the surface part of your problem.&nbsp; The real problem concerns what is causing the dust to find the coins in the first place.&nbsp; Chances are your worst enemy is static electricity which is charging up the coins and turning them into dust magnets.&nbsp; Wiping them will move the dust particles out of sight for a moment, but will also increase the charge so that by the time you have recomposed an image, new particles have settled in.&nbsp; Anything moving across the surface of the coin, including air, will have a static impact.</p><p><br /></p><p>To be perfectly honest, unless you have taken some rather extraordinary anti-static measures there isn&#039;t much you can do to prevent dust from settling.&nbsp; The solution I have come to prefer, after striving for a clean shooting environment, is to remove the most egregious dust in post editing of the image, and leave the rest go.&nbsp; It helps in some respects to shoot on a black background which, counter-intuitively perhaps, will show the dust more easily.&nbsp; But editing a uniform black is comparatively easy.&nbsp; The coin surfaces typically require high image magnification for cleanup, and can be complicated.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have an aesthetic that will only allow unedited final images, then you need to learn to live with the dust.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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