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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 786825, member: 19463&quot;]Without accessories, the lens only focuses to a little under a foot which is not close enough for small coins. You can get extension tubes or really cheap close up lenses cheaper than a real macro lens. Quality with tubes would be acceptable. There is another answer: live with it. The image below is not cropped but I did move the reverse image to the same frame as the obverse and reduce the size to fit here. This was shot with the 18-55 old model (not as sharp as the one they sell now) on the original 6MP Digital Rebel. Your 15.1MP T1i should do about twice as well. </p><p>AE3 about 18mm diameter at .9ft at 55mm</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/121076952.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Below is the same image cropped to remove the excess black but not reduced in size. You can see some unsharpness here but remember ths is the old camera and old lens so the new one should be better.</p><p><a href="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/121076953/original" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/121076953/original" rel="nofollow">http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/121076953<u><span style="color: #22229c">/original</span></u></a></p><p>I had to post a link to the big image here because Coin Talk doesn&#039;t allow a photo that large. You can see it on my pBase page or trust me. It&#039;s OK but not great.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now in all honesty, most people won&#039;t want a photo that large and the T1i image will be twice as big so I reduced the above image to 800 pixels wide and a lot of the unsharpness was lost in the process.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/121076954.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Could you do better with a set of extension tubes? Yes. ...with a real macro lens? Certainly!!! Can you live with this quality (or actually with twice this quality since the T1i has 15 megapixels compared to the above sample shot with 6 megapixels)? You decide. The limiting factor here is the coin and my lighting technique. I should have picked a sharper coin and spent a while playing with it but the point here was that it can be done and this is what you can get with little effort and no special accessories other than the camera kit and a tripod. (Would it be inappropriate to mention that you may want to practice a little?) The lens is not the weakest link in this chain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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