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Anybody do macro photography? Let’s see some closeups of your varieties.
justmenutty72
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Here’s an 1893-S/S Barber Dime RPM#1, very early die state AU50
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I love sharing this photo, thanks for the chance to post it again. This is a 1947/5 Colombian 20 Centavo, photographed with a cheap digital microscope.
Sean Reynolds
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Love the close ups. Anyone doing so with an inexpensive point and shoot camera? Care to share what you use?
bob
Here's a detail of the '95 DDO:
And here is a 3-D (cross-eye) shot of the 1954-S RPM #4:
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All of my pics are taken with an ancient dinosaur, a Canon PowerShot S2 IS. I rigged up a ring light and mounted it on the front of the camera. I’ve been looking at getting a Bolt VM-160 ring light but not sure if I want to. I may just get a much better camera. My Canon is only 5 megapixels.
WB-22 LDS Rarity 4
This is not a macro image, but a close up of the FS-301 RPD of my latest cherrypick.
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These closeups are with iPhone 12 Pro with a macro lens. I used manual focus in Camera+2 app and a Small Scissor Jack as a camera stand to precisely adjust the focus like you do with a stage microscope
Mr_Spud
These are old ones from long time ago, taken with an old used Nikon through an antique microscope
Mr_Spud
Something else to work on at some time in the future, hope I don't run out of time! Anyway here is a nice shot of my 1909 Lincoln S over Horizontal S taken by Mark Goodman.
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1945-P Jefferson Nickel DDR Die#1 MS65
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Nothing rare or overly special here, just some pics I took while fiddling with my microscope
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How about some grease strikethroughs?
."It's a dangerous business... going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to" -JRR Tolkien_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Outstanding BST transactions as a seller, buyer and trader with: ----- mustanggt, Kliao, claudewill87, MWallace, paesan, mpbuck82, moursund, basetsb, lordmarcovan, JWP, Coin hunter 4, COINS MAKE CENTS, PerryHall, Aspie_Rocco, Braddick, DBSTrader2, SanctionII, Histman, The_Dinosaur_Man, jesbroken, CentSearcher ------ANA Member #3214817
I don't think this is a macro. You don't need the arrows to see it but it's all there.
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1848-O V-2 half dime - 4 repunched to NW.
Shot with my Canon 100mm 1st gen macro lens that I bought used on ebay from Japan and an old Canon T2i.
But mostly it takes the right angle of light to show this feature, and the right coin!
Celestron.
Jim
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Canon 60D with Canon 100mm lens.
Some great macro photography here. Amazing pictures.... Thanks everyone for showing these. Cheers, RickO
1923-S Struck thru Struck Fragment.
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My contribution
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Here's a collage of 900 of my more recent ones.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Nice! I especially like the unicorn 21D Morgan
Mr_Spud
Now find the 87 Donkey Tail. Someone sent me a big pile of DDO and DDR quarters a while ago, too.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
The best thing I can say about my iPhone 13 is that it takes pictures. Read about a macro clip-on lens in another thread, been playing around with it. Getting closer.
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if i can identify every variety with 100% accuracy from that collage, do i get lifetime gratis VSS submissions? no more than 25 coins at a time to be fair.
It might be this one, but it’s upside down if it’s it
Mr_Spud
That's the 21-D Unicorn.
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I vote to have that on the 2023 PCGS Calendar
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I could make a bigger one with a few thousand images on it for them. I have over 20,000 to choose from.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
This is just zoomed in on the original picture. I love the detail that my camera provides.
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From an older P&S camera with a macro setting, not enough pixels for clarity when I blow it up. Vam 6 78-S.
I like this one! It's like a smiley face. 😂 🤣
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Wasn't this an image from the Mars roamer Curiosity?
My coin, but the close up photo (possibly not macro) was taken by GC - 1829/7 Bust Half:
Steve
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@rmpsrpms you are the Master.
In case anyone needs a reminder for what a Type 2 mintmark for 1981-S looks like.
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1878 P VAM 224 Obv closeup, and Rev 168 reeds.