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How to Photograph Coins with Digital Cameras

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For over a month now I have been searching for information on how to take good photos of my coins with my digital. I have struck out in the local photo shops for books and everything I found on the Web was not available unless you bought the information.
Well, today I revisted on of my "favorites" on the Web and Lo and Behold there was a new section on How to do Digital Coin Photography with emphasis on Large Cents. So if anyone is interested in being able to improve your photos please check out this website.
http://www.uscents.com/DCP/DCP001.htm
The original Website this came from also is neat.
http://www.uscents.com/ HH Don in South Jersey
 
<p> Still learning---I took these photos with my Nikon 775 in Macro Mode, Incandenscent Light Setting and Image Quality Fine. Lens was about 2 inches from coin. Used a 50 Watt Reflector Lamp directed as much as possible on the coin itself. The Blue background did not change the color of the coin that much, seems to be a good background for the copper coin.
Used MS Photo Editor but I did NOT change anything other than resize. I do have a question concerning the Save portion on the Photo Editor. It had a scale at the bottom and it was at 74 out of 100 for JPEG quality factor. What does it mean and should I have changed that setting?
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Don in South Jersey
 
Rick got me to shoot some nice shots outside which I can't seem to find right now... Guvner..
 
its just the amount of compression to a jpeg file, remember that the computers monitors really cant show much more detail than around 72 dpi, so you can lower a pic files size quite a bit without noticable quality loss on a computer screen, however if you were to use the file for prints you might want to use the higher dpi settings..
 
Do not alter your original jpg file at all. Make a copy and play with that. Each time you save it you are degrading the image.
Someone besides me will have to give you a more scientific explanation but it does... Guvner..
 
every time you make a change with a jpg it degrades. I always save the original photo as it comes off the camera and mess with the copy.
I have been making all my changes in bmp and then changing it to jpg when I am ready to post it.
All my vacation pictures are burnt to cd as soon as they come off the camera. Then I can mess with them and not lose them if I screw up.
These guys know a lot more than I do but that is the way I do it.
That is a fine picture of the large cent, Don! With Photoshop 6 they have a choice of "save for the web" and I usually save them as low quality jpg and you can not see the difference on the web. Sometimes the picture is changed from a meg to 15 or 20 k and that makes a quick download
 
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