Digital Cameras

ACREBAR

Could anyone recomend a digatal camera to mount to a stereo microscope?
I would like to add some pic's to my sets.
Thanks for everyones help.
AL

iras4

You surely wouldn't want to take photos of your coins through a microscope unless you were examining a very small detail of the coin. I use a digital SLR with a macro lens (allows 1:1) I precisely adjust white balance to a 18% neutral gray card as my background, then combine both obverse and reverse using Photoshop so that a single photo allows a viewer to see both sides of the coin at the same time. The photos are resized to 72 dpi for viewing on a computer monitor. They are sized to at least 200 dpi minimum for color prints.

Ira

ACREBAR

Thanks Ira
I am new to all this picture stuff.
Al

earlwbollinger

I use a Pentax Optio s4i to good effect.
The trick is buying or making yourself a decent Camera stand, and the lighting. Actually it seems lighting is the most important thing to work on getting right.
The Pentax has a Macro and Super Macro mode which is fine for most all of the coin pics that one does.
closer than that and you are getting into a low power microscope mode then.