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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2959417, member: 10461&quot;]The steamboat one is older!</p><p><br /></p><p>As it happens, this is an old <i>thread</i>, from early in my transition from Collectors Universe to CoinTalk a bit over a year ago.&nbsp; (I joined here in 2007 but posted only a dozen times or so before mid-2016).&nbsp; Gilbert must&#039;ve clicked through from my &quot;for sale&quot; thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>The camera setup is nice, but I hardly ever used it and it just never caught on with me.&nbsp; Partly because I am utterly bewildered by all the codes and numbers and symbols <font size="3"><strike>and hieroglyphs</strike> </font>on that camera and in its software, and how to get the lighting right, and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given time, I could work through all that and struggle up the learning curve, but learning just seemed a <i>chore</i> to me rather than fun.&nbsp; I was never any good in school if I felt that way about a class.&nbsp; It seems I just don&#039;t have any passion for this, despite the encouraging beginning and the fact that I probably would indeed enjoy it if I hung in there a bit longer.&nbsp; The timing&#039;s just off for that, with major home renovations pending here and such.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know some people love coin photography and enjoy it almost as much as the coins themselves, and hopefully this setup will end up with someone like that.&nbsp; In the meantine, I&#039;ve found that when I need professional quality photographs, I&#039;d rather pay professionals to do it rather than try to duplicate their work myself.&nbsp; For everyday images that only need to be adequate, I&#039;m finding my new cellphone has a pretty good camera.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another problem is schlepping the setup shown here to and from work.&nbsp; Ray built this setup for me with portability in mind- and portable it is- but still a hassle to drag around on my commute, when I could do 75% of what I need to with the phone in my pocket, instead, and pay professionals to do the other 25%.&nbsp; And my living quarters at home are presently too cramped and dusty and overrun with pets to set this up and <i>leave</i> it set up, so I haven&#039;t been using it here, either.&nbsp; I lack any kind of office space of my own.</p><p><br /></p><p>So... it&#039;s a great setup, and had I owned it at a different stage in my life, with different living and working conditions to use it in, I would have no doubt enjoyed it very much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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