Help With Photos

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• LucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭

  January 30, 2004 4:02PM

  Scanners do not capture Luster....
  
  a digi camera is the only way to fly Daddy-o!!!
  
  

  Be Bop A Lula!!
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• spy88 Posts: 764 ✭✭

  January 30, 2004 5:47PM

  It is going to be a personal preference for you. Many here use a scanner and some of that number use software programs to "help" with the pics. Others will do the same with a digital camera.
  
  I personally prefer to use a dig. camera. I can take many different pics of the same coin with different lighting options, adjust for white balance, different quality by adjusting contrast, sharpness, saturation, compression, resolution, etc. all without any help to get a really good pic of a coin. Then I just edit out the ones that are of lesser in-hand images and keep the one that comes the closest or matches (almost always the case).

  Everything starts and everything stops at precisely the right time for precisely the right reason.

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• sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭

  January 31, 2004 12:47AM

  tell us more about the condition of your coins? circulated or uncirculated? what percent are in slabs?
  
  do you have any equipment now for this - or these be new purchases?
  will these items be useful for other things as well - or just your cataloging your collection?
  
  how much money were you thinking of spending for your equipment?
  
  
  how nice a result do you want? - how much time do you want to spend on each item?

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• ksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭

  January 31, 2004 1:17AM

  See this thread I just started.

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• fullerfun4 Posts: 385

  January 31, 2004 6:34AM

  I have been collecting for about 6 years and have quite a large collection. I was rather eclectic at first, buying whatever tickled my fancy, mainly the denominations not now issued (half cents, 2 cents, half dimes, shield and liberty 5 cents, mostly bust issues and very little seated liberty types) but have focused on half cents and large cents in the recent past. Most of my coins are not slabbed, but I do have perhaps 100 or so slabbed coins. Additionally, I have concentrated mainly on large currency notes, but also like such unusual things as prisoner of war currency, WWII emergency issues, and fractional notes.
  My desire to image my coins and currency is for two basic reasons: to catalogue them and to perhaps sell my excess items via internet.
  At the present I have a scanner, but it seems to not be of great quality. I aslo have a Canon 2.0 meg digital camera but have not had great success at photos. Any suggestions?

  We are always better off than we deserve.

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