First coin photo with new camera

Halfsense

I'm still "playing" with my week-old Nikon D5100 it to learn all its secret handshakes, but I thought this came out pretty well for a first-time attempt to shoot a close up of a coin. The circulated 1999 Canadian cent in the picture is one of a handful of world coins on my office desk left over from various journeys in recent years.

First coin photo with new camera

Obviously, the folks who run the PCGS TrueView photo department have absolutely nothing to fear from me.

-donn-

gonzer

Details please.

mingot

for the lazy

LanceNewmanOCC

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looks like you are on the right track
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Practice making them big tooooooooooooo
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lcoopie

What lens did you use
What f stop
Did you focus manually?

Halfsense

Mingot, thank you for posting the coin image within the body of the message. I still have not figured out how to do that, despite numerous attempts.

Icoopie, I used the lens that came with the camera, 18 - 55mm, and simply set the automatic mode to close up. I don't recall the f stop. I'll probably purchase a macro lens or adapter if I need to make larger file size JPGs. I'm still learning the ins 'n' outs of the Nikson D5100. For those of you going to Long Beach next week, the guy you see walking the bourse floor with a confused look on his face as he puzzles over his camera will probably be me....

-donn-

LanceNewmanOCC

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before you purchase an extra lens

i have a couple tips for you to try that should make your images quite large without spending for a lens like i did

I am happy to have the lens I do but i can just about accomplish the same feat with a normal digi cam with macro function
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The image I posted below, the really big one isnt' so much a feature of the camera but the image editing ;-)
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lcoopie

here's some info on the D5100 that might be helpful