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1907Quarter1907Quarter Posts: 2,770
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when in this mode, you ARE supposed to use the zoom in feature on the camera, right?
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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    yes
  • MyWorldCoinTypeSetMyWorldCoinTypeSet Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭
    I do on my camera.
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  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    On my camera (canon A60) it has a seperate macro focus adjustment measured in inches.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    In general, the less zoom you use the pictures will be sharper. Kinda a tradeoff there. Nikon has a little flower icon the stays green when you are in good zoom areas and will turn white when the zoom gets too much. I believe you are using a Nikon by the other thread?
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  • 1907Quarter1907Quarter Posts: 2,770
    bingo! I just read about the green flower-it also flashes when things go bad!
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  • DominusDeusDominusDeus Posts: 993 ✭
    Can't use the zoom on my camera on macro mode. Well, you can, but I can get closer to the coin and get it in focus w/o zoom. With zoom, camera has to be 3x further away, and the coin would be about 2/3 times smaller than w/o zoom. It's gay.

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  • DominusDeusDominusDeus Posts: 993 ✭
    Oh yea... Amazingly, only 24 or so days after the TX quarter release, my bank (in WV, eastern US, hicksville...) managed to have 4 TX quarters. Grabbed all 4. So yea, i now have 4 spiffy (well, 3. One has a nice hit on the TX state. The other 3 are decent) TX quarters. All Philly. Got a friend in LA on the lookout for some Denver mint coins to snail mail to me.
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Sure thing. I zoom as much as I can in macro mode.
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    << <i>In general, the less zoom you use the pictures will be sharper. Kinda a tradeoff there. Nikon has a little flower icon the stays green when you are in good zoom areas and will turn white when the zoom gets too much. I believe you are using a Nikon by the other thread? >>

    That's only true if you use an interpolated zoom. An optical zoom factor retains its crispness for the full range. That's one reason why you see cameras and camcorders showing optical range and digital range.
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  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165 ✭
    I spent quite a few hours shopping for digital cameras yesterday armed with the entire thread printed out that many

    of you took time to respond to. The sheer volume of cameras and possibilities, with the only knowledge I have being that

    which you guys provided me with, made dizzy and I ended up leaving with nothing. Now I'm looking on eBay armed with that

    same thread and I just cannot make up my mind. Everyone's pictures look so nice. Damn, I hate "Not knowing". That

    vulnerable, "ignorant" feeling shoots holes through my Astral Plane!image It's making me ill.image
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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Well, one of the first rules of photography I learned years ago is to take as many pics of the same thing as you can because chances are you'll hate most of them.
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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    my sony dcrdvd300 works fine on stills, so fine I noticed it picked up what I used to steady this coin from rolling..anyone know what it was?
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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    do you use photoshop to super impose one coin on another?
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  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165 ✭
    Here's another stupid question but I have to ask. Can I use me cam corder to do the same thing? No!?
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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Yes, but the quality of the optics on most digital cameras surpass the quality of camcorder ones.
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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    well, the sony dcrdvd300 is a camcorder that uses cd as a storage medieum..goes straight to your dvd player should you take movies, stills i transmit to pc and them manipulate in photoshop..which I have 7 if someone wants a copy.
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  • ElectricEyeElectricEye Posts: 2,354


    << <i>anyone know what it was? >>

    A notebook.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Looks like some sort of velvety presentation case holding up RFK.
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  • joeyukjoeyuk Posts: 3,282
    Is it sugar that keeps it from rolling? Or maybe salt.

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