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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4952344, member: 10461"]I feel your pain. On my best day I shoot <i>some</i> pix that may be <i>adequate</i>, but fall short from even that most of the time. I would definitely <i>not</i> say the pictures below are my <i>best</i>, but the pics below (copied and pasted from another thread) illustrate what little progress I am gradually making.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second set of photos were shot with my new iPhone. I must say that while I miss my old Android phone in most other respects, and am not a giant fan of the iPhone, it does have a much better camera. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did once have a professional quality photo setup with a Canon DSLR, but it was too much for me. I found the software and features bewildering. Simple is better for me. And a smartphone is more portable.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">I have no pretensions of being a great coin photographer. Right now I’d settle for “adequate”.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Here are two sets of cellphone pix of the same coin, shot in the same place under similar conditions (i.e., natural light, outdoors, on an cloudy day).</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">The “crusty” toning on this coin makes it a slightly challenging subject.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4">I do think the new pix are clearly better than the old, though how much of that is attributable to the phone and how much to the fact that the light might have just been a tad better for the new photos is debatable.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><b>Old phone</b> (a base model Samsung, ca. 2017)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/676fcfea-5100-40d8-9122-7f56e85297ad-png.1181739/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/183bb7a9-39e0-4f02-ad41-063d4ba94adb-png.1181740/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><b>New phone </b>(brand new iPhone XR)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/0f5da451-f20c-48da-a54d-c28e8da30bf2-jpeg.1181742/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/cd9c7276-dad5-4ee2-9ebb-fae115a8dd8f-jpeg.1181741/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4952344, member: 10461"]I feel your pain. On my best day I shoot [I]some[/I] pix that may be [I]adequate[/I], but fall short from even that most of the time. I would definitely [I]not[/I] say the pictures below are my [I]best[/I], but the pics below (copied and pasted from another thread) illustrate what little progress I am gradually making. The second set of photos were shot with my new iPhone. I must say that while I miss my old Android phone in most other respects, and am not a giant fan of the iPhone, it does have a much better camera. I did once have a professional quality photo setup with a Canon DSLR, but it was too much for me. I found the software and features bewildering. Simple is better for me. And a smartphone is more portable. [INDENT][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=4]I have no pretensions of being a great coin photographer. Right now I’d settle for “adequate”. Here are two sets of cellphone pix of the same coin, shot in the same place under similar conditions (i.e., natural light, outdoors, on an cloudy day). The “crusty” toning on this coin makes it a slightly challenging subject. I do think the new pix are clearly better than the old, though how much of that is attributable to the phone and how much to the fact that the light might have just been a tad better for the new photos is debatable. [B]Old phone[/B] (a base model Samsung, ca. 2017) [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/676fcfea-5100-40d8-9122-7f56e85297ad-png.1181739/[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/183bb7a9-39e0-4f02-ad41-063d4ba94adb-png.1181740/[/IMG] [B]New phone [/B](brand new iPhone XR) [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/0f5da451-f20c-48da-a54d-c28e8da30bf2-jpeg.1181742/[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/cd9c7276-dad5-4ee2-9ebb-fae115a8dd8f-jpeg.1181741/[/IMG][/SIZE][/FONT][/INDENT][/QUOTE]
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