It's hard to take good photos of coins in slabs. But I tried anyway.

AuldFartte

Some older stuff I had in a box. Marks you see are on the old slabs, not on the coins.



Those are deceptive. That Merc is blast white.

More to come!

jesbroken

Nice pics.
Jim

JimTyler

Better than I can do.

TurtleCat

It looks nice to me. The trick with coins in slabs is all in lighting and not letting the camera choose its own exposure settings. Having a lens that can focus closely but not be too close allows you to move lights around to best advantage which is key.

1630Boston

nice pics

Dave99B

Well done. Yes, it’s tricky.

Dave

Mr_Spud

They are pretty good. The dime looks like the light was diffused or something though. I’m thinking if you play around with the light a bit the pictures will get even better.

I’ve resorted to putting several drops of volatile mineral oil on top of the slab over the coin with a medicine dropper to make any scratches and glare on the slab go away. It pretty much makes the slab invisible to the camera. It’s even more critical for me to do that though because I’m using autofocus on my iPhone and the camera ends up focusing on scratches and/or glare from the slab rather than focusing on the coin.

ctf_error_coins

Photography thru slabs sucks, such horrible experience

That said, my inventory has 600 slabbed coins needing 4 shots each, ugh

WaterSport

Try taking pics at night with no other ambient light. It took me over 3 months to take pictures of over 500 Lincolns - I feel your pain and effort.

WS

markelman1125

Yea it’s hard phone cameras never capture the true luster or colors

ricko

@AuldFartte ... Well done... coin photography is tricky at best... slabs complicate it further. Cheers, RickO

AuldFartte

@TurtleCat said:
It looks nice to me. The trick with coins in slabs is all in lighting and not letting the camera choose its own exposure settings. Having a lens that can focus closely but not be too close allows you to move lights around to best advantage which is key.

Thanks for the advice, @TurtleCat ! Much appreciated!

AuldFartte

@Mr_Spud said:
They are pretty good. The dime looks like the light was diffused or something though. I’m thinking if you play around with the light a bit the pictures will get even better.

I’ve resorted to putting several drops of volatile mineral oil on top of the slab over the coin with a medicine dropper to make any scratches and glare on the slab go away. It pretty much makes the slab invisible to the camera. It’s even more critical for me to do that though because I’m using autofocus on my iPhone and the camera ends up focusing on scratches and/or glare from the slab rather than focusing on the coin.

Thanks for that, @Mr_Spud ! I appreciate all the help I can get!