Tenroz, the picture of the barber dime was taken with my Epson Perfection 1650 Scanner, I used a color background to set the coin off. I also have a Olympus C-3000 digital zoom camera that can and will take a better shot of a coin if you get just the right lighting and shoot it in Macro mode. The difference between the two is that a scanner is one two three then bingo where as a camera takes time to get the right settings and lighting to get that perfect shot. The camera will take a better picture but you have to work at it and keep shooting the picture over and over again till it is just right where as the scanner is so easy and the picture is just about as good as the camera plus the price is right on the scanner. You can get a scanner for anywhere from 80 bucks on up, my scanner cost 130 bucks. The camera cost 550 bucks, big difference in price but not that much difference in quality. I take my camera into the field with me on my hunts incase I want to take a picture of a hunting site or something I've seen but because of the ease of the scanner I almost always scann my coin shots. Here's a picture I took with my camera Tenroz, as you can see it does a great job but it took me awhile to get that perfect shot, the lighting has to be perfect and must almost always be natural lighting, if theres anything that I can help you with as far as settings go please ask, I don't mind abit, hh
Camera shot
