best camera to take coin pics

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  November 28, 2003 8:06AM

  There's no such thing as a "best" camera for coin photography. You'll find a dozen answers to that question from a dozen people who do nice coin images. If you get a camera that does excellent macro and allows you to adjust white balance, the rest is lighting and angle. The more flexible your setup in that area, the better.
  
  As for a specific recommendation, I use a Ricoh RDC-4300. It's old, used and cheap.
  
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• airplanenut Posts: 22,702 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 28, 2003 8:11AM

  I like my Nikon Coolpix 4500... it's not old, it's not too used, but it's still pretty cheap

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• greghansen Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭

  November 28, 2003 8:16AM

  I've seen this question asked a lot...and if you do a search using 'photo', 'pictures' or 'photographs', you'll find a lot of useful ideas. For my part, I don't have one, but having read a lot of these threads, I see a lot of people like the Nikon Coolpix series of cameras.

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• tlhoy Posts: 2,204

  November 28, 2003 8:26AM

  RUSS said "As for a specific recommendation, I use a Ricoh RDC-4300. It's old, used and cheap."
  I bought a Ricoh RDC-4300 ($52.04 eBay) because I've seen Russ's pictures. I'm VERY happy with it!
  Thanks Russ,
  Glenn
  Just need to work on my focus!
  

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