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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robec, post: 24706756, member: 19094&quot;]Definitely use the Canon Utility software and tether to your computer. With that you can adjust your lighting while you watch the affect live on your computer monitor. Don’t marry the idea of always having&nbsp; the the lights at 10 and 2. Play around with their position to see how it affects the look of the coin. You’d be surprised how different a coin will look with even the smallest position change.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can also move the lighting at different angles and elevation to see different looks. All you read in books about lighting positions or coin orientation should be taken as a guide, but not the final word. Try taking some shots of a coin using the same light position, but rotate the coin an eighth of a turn after each shot. It is interesting how the lights highlight different areas with each change.</p><p><br /></p><p>an example of what you see on your computer monitor by using the free Canon Utility software.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can control many of the camera’s setting, plus you can see what is going on live while adjusting lights or coin position. The screen on the right shows a magnified look at the area inside the little white box in the screen on the left. This gives you better focus control, but focus manually not auto. The reason is that auto may focus in on a piece of dust on the slab instead of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578634[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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