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in2Coinsin2Coins Posts: 356 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Still messing with lighting and settings….



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  • MrScienceMrScience Posts: 739 ✭✭✭

    Beautiful! What is your photographic setup?

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Zowie! That is awesome.

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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,385 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's exquisite! Keep posting

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  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 25, 2024 3:09AM

    STUNNING @in2Coins !!

    So we're getting close to a scanning electron microscope, the exact composition of the metal and the DNA off this hair. 🤣 😂 👍 OUTSTANDING!!

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  • Makes_Cents1981Makes_Cents1981 Posts: 9 ✭

    Amazing pics , what camera is this

  • dsessomdsessom Posts: 2,397 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You can see atoms! Wow, that is really impressive to be so clear and so close up.

    Best regards,
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  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,018 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats, great work. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully, one day you could setup at major coin shows and macro photo top error coins. Love the color, also.
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  • air4mdcair4mdc Posts: 915 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Could your camera be a stereomicroscope? I have a high-end 100mm Macro and I don't think I can get close-ups such as yours. Great pictures and the detail level of the coin is out of the park.

  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,323 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Every coin you examine now will have some degree of 'doubling'.

    Seriously, they are very nice, high powered pics.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It now makes me wonder what level of magnification the TPG'ers use when grading coins.

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  • in2Coinsin2Coins Posts: 356 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MrScience said:
    Beautiful! What is your photographic setup?

    Sony a7r II and Mitakon 4.5x Mag.

  • in2Coinsin2Coins Posts: 356 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OAKSTAR said:
    STUNNING @in2Coins !!

    So we're getting close to a scanning electron microscope, the exact composition of the metal and the DNA off this hair. 🤣 😂 👍 OUTSTANDING!!

    😂😂😂. I was deburring a black delrin plastic material.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭✭✭

    🤣 😂 Or DNA from a fingerprint from the last "NON-numistnatist" that last touched that coin! 🤣 🤣

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  • fathomfathom Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Have not purchased a mirrorless yet.

    Nice sharpness.

  • in2Coinsin2Coins Posts: 356 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @air4mdc said:
    Could your camera be a stereomicroscope? I have a high-end 100mm Macro and I don't think I can get close-ups such as yours. Great pictures and the detail level of the coin is out of the park.

    Not quite. Lens has 4.5x magnification.

  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DoubleEagle59 said:
    Every coin you examine now will have some degree of 'doubling'.

    For the sake of all of us I hope he doesn’t frequent parking lots

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  • in2Coinsin2Coins Posts: 356 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 25, 2024 1:34PM

    The horror….

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,977 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What size lens and brand are you using?
    Nice work

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  • dsessomdsessom Posts: 2,397 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @crazyhounddog said:
    What size lens and brand are you using?
    Nice work

    Hi Joe! I believe he said he is using a Sony A7R II and Mitakon 4.5x macro lens, and I am pretty sure that the lens is the "secret sauce" behind those awesome close-ups. I have a Nikon D5500 and might just have to try that lens!

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  • in2Coinsin2Coins Posts: 356 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @crazyhounddog said:
    What size lens and brand are you using?
    Nice work

    Thanks. It’s Mitakon 4.5x mag.

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  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What the heck is this??

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,977 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 25, 2024 3:37PM

    @dsessom said:

    @crazyhounddog said:
    What size lens and brand are you using?
    Nice work

    Hi Joe! I believe he said he is using a Sony A7R II and Mitakon 4.5x macro lens, and I am pretty sure that the lens is the "secret sauce" behind those awesome close-ups. I have a Nikon D5500 and might just have to try that lens!

    I would also love to give that one a try on my Nikon D750. For being small lens it sure does work well.

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  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 4,802 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dsessom said:

    @crazyhounddog said:
    What size lens and brand are you using?
    Nice work

    Hi Joe! I believe he said he is using a Sony A7R II and Mitakon 4.5x macro lens, and I am pretty sure that the lens is the "secret sauce" behind those awesome close-ups.

    Actually, I believe the advanced thing he does is to use focus stacking software.

  • Jacques_LoungecoqueJacques_Loungecoque Posts: 733 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That’s wild, man. Cool, cool stuff.
    If you squint real hard you can see elections in motion circling the nucleus.

    Having fun while switching things up and focusing on a next level PCGS slabbed 1950+ type set, while still looking for great examples for the 7070.

  • lilolmelilolme Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @yosclimber said:

    @dsessom said:

    @crazyhounddog said:
    What size lens and brand are you using?
    Nice work

    Hi Joe! I believe he said he is using a Sony A7R II and Mitakon 4.5x macro lens, and I am pretty sure that the lens is the "secret sauce" behind those awesome close-ups.

    Actually, I believe the advanced thing he does is to use focus stacking software.

    .

    Definitely neat close ups.

    In a previous thread by the OP where they noted the multiple photos for the macro shot, I made a comical comment about needing an App to do that. I did go looking for what was happening. It reminded me back when I used my snap-o'matic to take hiking photos. Sometimes I would take 2, 3 or more and then use a stitching software to blend the edges together to create one larger or longer photo scene (some worked better than others).

    This photo stacking is much more advanced and can even do exposure corrections it appears in addition to focus. This article kind of explained it to where I semi-understand. Many things to get it right or best. But not being a photographer there are probably several things I am missing. :)

    https://digital-photography-school.com/a-beginners-guide-to-focus-stacking/

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