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These things are a bear to get good pics of.

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  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    That's a nice proof Mercury dime. image

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  • TACloughTAClough Posts: 1,598 ✭
    Too many scratches on that coin, feel free to sent it to me for desposal. Thanks in advance.image
  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
    Nice image. Sigma 150mm lens on that one?
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>These things are a bear to get good pics of. >>


    Yea you're right. That image sux! image

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Yeah just my regular 150 lens. the lighting is a pain because they are so shiny.
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  • BruceswarBruceswar Posts: 2,869
    Not to mention what looks like an NGC slab, which we all know eats up small coins.
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  • greghansengreghansen Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭
    One of the better Mercury images I've seen. The lighting on the reverse let you capture an almost cameo like effect. Pretty.

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  • ABC123ABC123 Posts: 2,627
    beautiful *
  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    Looks like you bagged the bear.image
  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
    I really like that you captured the subtle nuances that are hard enough to see, let alone to photograph, which go into the grading of a proof coin. You captured the faint hairlines between the L and I of liberty, and in the fields behind the head as well as the faint speckling around the W initial. On the reverse just some minor hairlining around the E of e pluribus unum. I'd grade this piece a PR64 based on the images.
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh boy mgoodm3, I would love to see you -with your skill- capture this little lady's cheek.
    Even I, with my all thumbs lousy pic taking, can make her look pretty- I could imagine how you would make her look.
    Those are really nice looking pics you took there.
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  • 1921obsession1921obsession Posts: 559 ✭
    What a helluva shot. Single light, high but not vertical, higher on the reverse, at about 11:00? I'm trying to learn here.
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    2 light are actually being used. One at about 10 and one at about 4. You can see the light on the fields opposite the lights. This is my primary use for Ott lights, when I need very diffuse lighting. The shiny surfaces on brilliant proofs are all glare otherwise. i put the lights under the lens and shoot into the gap. i put the shadow of the lights as close to the coin as possible without screwing up the pic.

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