Coin related question(poll) about digital cameras. What do you use and which provides quality for th
Boom
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I've been using an hp psc 2175 printer copier scanner and the thing just does absolutely NO JUSTICE to these beautiful PQ
coins. It's a wonder I've managed to even sell a coin. I would like to know what you guys use..Brand Name and all the
particulars. I've had it with this thing. HELP....please!!! Thank you.
Names. prices and quality for the money, that sort
of thing would be appreciated.
coins. It's a wonder I've managed to even sell a coin. I would like to know what you guys use..Brand Name and all the
particulars. I've had it with this thing. HELP....please!!! Thank you.
Names. prices and quality for the money, that sortof thing would be appreciated.
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jom
Herb
After that, everything else is trial and error on how to make the picture better - adjust the lighting, adjust the white balance, crop and re-size the picture, etc.
It is FUN and easy! Dump that scanner and take the plunge I say!
OOH Man, just thinking about all this is giving me a headache. Man...MORE to learn. I wonder if a quick fix in the meantime would be a black backing?
The SLR with a macro lens is super sharp.
Here's a shot at just 50k
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not listed price of product, quality, ease of usage and your satisfaction or dis-satisfaction, please school
me and provide as much info as concisely as possible. All these images, every last one of them , are gorgeous.
It's hard to decide I'm interested in quality vs price and ease of use as obviously I know NOTHING about DC's!
THANK YOU AGAIN ..So many of you take such beautiful pictures Russ takes GREAT pix of DCam coins, Oreville,
manofcoins...ALL gorgeous. This scanner has got to GO. When I try to zoom in and bear down, it makes coins
look like sit.
Oh, and these have all just been cropped in MSPaint and Uploaded straight to here. Didn't mess around with them at all in any Photo editing program.
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jom
Almost every digital camera will give you good pics of coins, the tricks are learning how to use the adjustments that come with it and lighting. Some are going to be better at ease of close-ups as they have a macro lens built in (some have a 2X macro for REALLY close-up pics). With others, you have to buy macro lenses that screw on over the camera lens.
It basically boils down to you going to a camera store and asking lots of questions. Are you going to use it for nothing but coins? Do you also want to use it for outings (vacation, family, country)? How much do you want to spend? Is weight, size, ease of use, battery life, resolution, etc. points of concern?
If you want something just for closeups of coins, consider this:
coinscope Kind of expensive but will do coins to computer very nicely.
Once you have made up your mind and buy one, the key is learning all that it can (and cannot) do thru trial and error. But the nice thing about digi cameras is the reader card---you can take hundreds of pics, edit out the ones you don't want and keep the ones you do in a short amount of time.
Hope this helps!
David
Price ? unknown,its my girlfriends.
works nicely in macro mode w/autofocus,i think lighting is the biggest trick !
also,when you upload pix here,the image must bu under 50kb which cuts down the resolution to 320x240 i think,so a high buck camera may not be the best thing.
Proof
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Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
to take very nice pictures of coins that I want to sell.
original post and edited the question and then, just now, I commented that it will be used for one purpose only.....to take the best pix I can to sell coins. So many factors to take into consideration. You see this hp psc 2175 is installed/programmed/ interphases with the computer, complete with hp imagery software and editor. Right now I am wondering if there would be a conflict within the computer or-no that won't do...it's an all in one. I obviously will need the copier and printer. This could
get complicated as I would (correct me if I'm wrong) disable the imagery software, including the editor or somehow run the camera thru the same program but over-riding the scanner while still employing the editor. See what I mean...it can get confusing to someone like me and I do not like feeling stupid
I now use a Richo RDC-7, sweet camera. I can only post 50KB pics or less here, but in the finest detail/compression it takes great shots and has a zoom feature in macro as well......little more expensive, but under $300.
Ken
I recently started a thread similar to yours. I am wanting to document my coins. Possibly for sale, but also for insurance and sharing with others. I currently have a digital camera (Sony CyberShot). It's nice for general pics, but I haven't gotten anything good on coins off of it.
I have been doing a little studying on cameras and taking a little advice from people on here. It apears that the Nikon D70 is about the best there is. Also pretty costly ($999 for just the body). I have the film version of it and get great pictures. I will use mine for things other than coins, though, so it's worth the investment for me. You might be better off with a less expensive camera. It all depends on how much you want to spend.
Software: I am familiar with PhotoShop and plan to use that. On my thread, it looks like others are using that too.
As you and I are both doing the research, feel free to ask questions.
<< <i>oldcameoproofsguy: Nice shot of the 26-P! You see the difference in the pic now that you have a black background? Or is the background edited? >>
Thanks jom,
The coin sat on a fine grained black material. The background is not edited. I appreciate your help and ideas, they have improved the quality of my shots a lot. I also think that the black background helped keep the colors of the coin in the image pretty accurate.
For the price question:
Canon Digital Rebel body $850
Canon 100mm 2.8 macro lens $400
I decided to download the photo retrieval software provided by Canon. It was very easy and downloading photos isn't difficult at all. There is a camera USB link that the computer retrieves automatically from the camera.
Also, one thing about the digital SLR's is that they are not compact. Mine is a big camera. the picture below makes it look smaller than it really is.
jom
I don't have any direct experience with the coin scope but if I were a dealer or as Boom wants something to take good pics of coins only, I would have to give serious thought (and still am) to getting one.
Getting everything I personally would want with it would run less then $1000 but seems the time and effort saved by the way it works, and the quality of pics it takes would easily pay for itself very shortly, especially if selling via the web. I haven't been able to find anything better for just coins (and/or other small items).
Coin Scope prices
GEESH...All this time I've been under the gross misconception that it was the plastic that a coin is housed in that fetches the big bucks.
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<< <i>As you and I are both doing the research, feel free to ask questions. >>
Thank you, one and all. Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you.Things have come up that have sidetracked me. I'll try to be brief.
Last year at this time I did not even own a computer. The simplest things that people younger than I, take for granted , are all Greek to me. I had to teach myself EVERYTHING! Just learning to create a link was a thrill and I was elated when I succeeded.
I have an hp psc 2175 that is an excellent piece of equipment and is everything in one-printer, scanner, copier. I don't know if I can just do away with the scanner which IS the imagery software, without also losing the printer and the copier which I need. By the same token( Believe me... I am not one ashamed to admit my limitations...I am NOT in denial or too proud to say, "I DON'T KNOW!) I don't know if I can hook up a digital camera and it's imagery software as a completely different program without there being a conflict between it and this all in one beast! Did I explain that worth a damn?
Thanks for everyone's help but for someone like me, man, it's a Jungle. Everyone's pix look so great.