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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1735904, member: 18157&quot;]I would defer to Desertgem as he has the experience. I&#039;m like you...pretty new to the various types of scopes. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a nice 15MP Canon cameras set up...but it&#039;s a real pain to use for coins and it had way more resolution than I need. I was looking for something that provided &quot;acceptable&quot; results, but made the transfer of images to computer much easier. The cheap USB set up I tried first makes it much easier to create the pictures right on the computer, but it&#039;s still a pain to work with and the results were less than I had hoped...although, better than I expected.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ultimately, my computer is the final destination for my pictures. I like&nbsp; to just point/click and let the computer make the measurements&nbsp; and annotate the images. I like it to be portable and display on the computer screen so multiple people can view an image at the same time. I like it to be video capable so you can move the coin around without losing it (or if I want to use it for things other than coins...such as bugs). I would also like it to have both an auto-focus as well as manual focus. <b>Those are features that are important to me...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Once you investigate what&#039;s out there, you should make a prioritized list of features that are <b>most important to you</b>...based on how you plan to use it. As Desertgem points out, 99.99% silver is worth more than 40% and so on. If you want the &quot;best of the best&quot; (glass lenses, 3-D imaging, large DoF, high resolution, video, etc) it&#039;s going to cost money. Since I&#039;m just a hobbyist, I try for the &quot;best of the best&quot; then optimize on my priorities...as the dollar amount exceeds my budget (or desire to mess with it).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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