Just picked up 100mm Macro Lens. It's pretty cool. Here is an 1830 half dime, and a 1955 proof Jeff
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To start with, I am by far the worlds worst photographer, however the right equipment can even help me take a somewhat acceptable picture.
No fancy camera mounting equipment was used, shot these by hand. Only light source was a single hologen to the left side of the coin, and believe it or not just the cameras flash. Jefferson was shot Raw, CBHD in JPG mode. Only editing done was to just crop the full coin views down to 25%.
And minor white balancing to the Jefferson, no white balancing on the half dime (Figure I'll need to read up on Camera Raw first)
Hopefully during the holidays I can find the time to play some more. I can definately tell that a copy stand of some sort would be usefull as to the extremely narrow depth of field. I kinda blewout the sharpness on parts of the coin by shooting by hand, and by having the camera on a slight angle to the slab)
Was kinda suprised at how far away I could be from the coin and still have it fill the whole shot, this I believe will come in handy for if/when I ever decide to play around with lighting.
The only thing I do not understand is why the Jefferson has some yellow in it, there is none on the actual coin. There was an overhead lightsource in the room perhaps it was generated from that. I have know idea.
Anyways here they are, and thanks for looking.
Ron
1830 25% original size
1830 100% size just cut a small section out.
1955 Proof Jefferson
No fancy camera mounting equipment was used, shot these by hand. Only light source was a single hologen to the left side of the coin, and believe it or not just the cameras flash. Jefferson was shot Raw, CBHD in JPG mode. Only editing done was to just crop the full coin views down to 25%.
And minor white balancing to the Jefferson, no white balancing on the half dime (Figure I'll need to read up on Camera Raw first)
Hopefully during the holidays I can find the time to play some more. I can definately tell that a copy stand of some sort would be usefull as to the extremely narrow depth of field. I kinda blewout the sharpness on parts of the coin by shooting by hand, and by having the camera on a slight angle to the slab)
Was kinda suprised at how far away I could be from the coin and still have it fill the whole shot, this I believe will come in handy for if/when I ever decide to play around with lighting.
The only thing I do not understand is why the Jefferson has some yellow in it, there is none on the actual coin. There was an overhead lightsource in the room perhaps it was generated from that. I have know idea.
Anyways here they are, and thanks for looking.
Ron
1830 25% original size
1830 100% size just cut a small section out.
1955 Proof Jefferson
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It's after midnight, and the camera is put away, however I promise to shot all of my half dimes during the holiday shutdown.
-Randy Newman
<< <i>I'm very impressed by the detail you captured on the half dime (and the HD itself, it's a good looking coin). Nice shots.
Thanks, Jon over at RCNH hooked me up with that one, wait to you see a few of the others he set me up with
I disagree!!!!
Those are great photos. Get a cheap copy stand. Learn what you can and do it now! White balance, croping, JPG and so on, and learn those subjects now! You are already taking super photos and can move to the upper ranks in the coin photography field by the end of January. Get to work man!
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Very nice shots.....& steady hands too.
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<< <i>I'm very impressed by the detail you captured on the half dime (and the HD itself, it's a good looking coin). Nice shots.
Thanks, Jon over at RCNH hooked me up with that one, wait to you see a few of the others he set me up with
I bought my first gold coin (1912-S $5) from those guys a few months back and was very impressed by their service and quality for the price of the coin. They were really top-notch in their dealings with me. I bet you did score some nice stuff.
-Randy Newman
<< <i>steady hands too.
If I posted many of the other 40-50 shots I took tonight you might think otherwise.
I guess if I'm willing to spend the kind of money I did on the lense, I would be foolish not to pickup a nice copy stand as well. Perhaps it time for me to do a search on copy stands.
Thanks everyone for the compliments.
Ron
Very nice.
John
Never view my other linked pages. They aren't coin related.
The name is LEE!
I would also like to know what camera and what brand lens.
I am trading up
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can you advise how much you paid for the lens and where did you purchase the lens. What camera can you mount the lens on.
thanks
gary
Lense is the Canon EF 100mm. The lense I picked up from Best Buy, I know I could have shopped around for a better price, but I had some Best Buy bonus dollars that where about to expire. I believe it would have cost about $600.00 if I did not have the bonus bucks to use.
I purchased three important accessories (To me anyways) that cost around $100.00, yet have made the camera much easier to learn, and use:
1. An additional 2 gig compact flash, (I have a tendancy to leave one in the computer by accident.)
2. An additional battery (Saved my but out in the woods more then once.)
3. Most importantly, the book Digital Rebel XTi/400D -- Digital Field Guide, by Charlotte K. Lowrie (WILEY), this book is very well writen, and explains not only the functions of the camera in a way I can understand, but also the Art/Science/Techniques of photography and how they apply to this camera.
If I had to do it over again, I would have looked harder at the Nikon D200, or I believe the Pentax which has image stabilization built into the camera body. The Canon Image Stabilzation lenses are expensive in my opinion, but necassary for those of us that do not feel comftable using tri/monopods.
Ron