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Photo questions... what aperture f/x.x do you use, and other setup questions
mercurydimeguy
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For those who use manual settings, what aperture do you use, and how bright are your bulbs, and about how high do you put the lens above your coin? Curious as to people's setups.
Thanks.
/mdg.
Thanks.
/mdg.
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wb, iso, ev setting etc also are good to know how to adjust.
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When I shoot with 4 Jansjo LEDs: ISO 100, Custom White Balance is set each time with a quality Gray Card, f/8 to f/13 generally, shutter is between 1/80 to 1/160 but generally set at 1/100 most commonly I think.
Nikon D300 with Nikon 105mm f/2.8 Macro Lens.
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
or this....
It changes for each.
why not shoot in "P" mode? ive never really liked A or S mode for coins.
i call this "cheat" mode. lol
can still change a few settings to tweak.
manual can be nice but for me i don't want that much control as it slows the process and i'm not shooting for coinfacts.
if my quality suffers a bit so i can shoot 3-10x more coins than the next guy, i am ok with it but i don't expect others to want what i want but will share and slightly
encourage methods i find acceptable and worthy.
general circulated coins can be imaged even quicker and often with 1 light. can do a few thousand a day easily with gr8 quality.
disclosure: when i say easy, it is still physically and mentally taxing as any multi-hour job can be that requires mental/physical expenditure and this does not include, transfer, editing/cropping, uploading etc.
when changing settings, one can look through the viewfinder (screen) to see in real-time how it may affect the images, depending on mode as mode can override a lot of settings but yiu can them view the images on the mem card with the camera pre-transfer.
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