r9453 Camera Setup

[r9453]

I pinched this idea from the Photography section of CCF. My carpentry skills are not exactly up to AJ standard. :grin: Here the camera is about 140mm above the coin but I think I need to get closer. :friends:

Sample pic coming up.



I got this one from the robbiegal coin shop:

[markn]

Very nice indeed!

[r9453]

Thanks Mark it would be hard to make that penny look bad. So I thought I would try something less glamorous. I moved the coin to 100mm from the camera. Background is photocopy paper.


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[ausjack]

it's all about doing the job Bob and that looks to be doing it fine
Do you need to move the light a little so it lights up the bottom of the coin a bit more, lookin good :good:

[r9453]

Do you need to move the light a little so it lights up the bottom of the coin a bit more, lookin good :good:

Thanks mate, I see what you mean. I can't get the lights any closer, they are almost touching the camera but I can move the coin toward the light since its not taking up the whole frame. :d_training:
Take 2. The obverse is very close to what the coin looks like in hand. I must have had the reverse in a slightly different position. In the thread at CCF the guy had the coin sitting on a piece of metal pipe but I might try a wooden dowel.

[Fordprefect]

Do you need to move the light a little so it lights up the bottom of the coin a bit more, lookin good :good:

Thanks mate, I see what you mean. I can't get the lights any closer, they are almost touching the camera but I can move the coin toward the light since its not taking up the whole frame. :d_training:

Don't move the lights closer to coin.
That will produce ugly unwanted hotspots on image.
(The Jansjo's put out quite a few watts)

Set your camera's white balance to Manual (If you can)

Your 1959 image with White Balance corrected:-

[r9453]

Wow thanks Rob, I had a feeling there was something wrong in that that department. Unfortunately the camera has no option to set the WB to Manual, you can set it to Auto, Incandescent, Fluro 1, 2 & 3 + Sunny & Cloudy. I will experiment and see if one is better than the others. I saw how to correct for it using Gimp but I assume its best to get it right in the camera.
I'm not sure about this, I think it might be OK.

[markn]

I think you'd get better pictures by moving your camera (and lights) FURTHER away from your coin.  Right now your lights are not diffuse enough and too directional.  It will lead to smaller images but I am told size isn't everything.

[ausjack]

but I am told size isn't everything

:scratch_one-s_head: I'm trying so very hard to be good :laugh2:

[markn]

:scratch_one-s_head: I'm trying so very hard to be good :laugh2:

Me too.  It's always women that tell me that too.  Women I know well.  Perhaps I should be reading something into it.:winkextra:

[ausjack]

must resist temptation, must resist temptation, must resist temptation :dontknow: how much more I can take :winkextra:

[markn]

must resist temptation, must resist temptation, must resist temptation :dontknow: how much more I can take :winkextra:

Count backwards from ten and breathe deeply.  I'll stop provoking you

[trout]

must resist temptation, must resist temptation, must resist temptation :dontknow: how much more I can take :winkextra:

Count backwards from ten and breathe deeply.  I'll stop provoking you

HeHe I can just see AJ now.
Boxing gloves on so he can't type and blood pouring from his mouth where he is biting his toung :yahoo::laugh2:

[r9453]

I think you'd get better pictures by moving your camera (and lights) FURTHER away from your coin.  Right now your lights are not diffuse enough and too directional.  It will lead to smaller images but I am told size isn't everything.

The camera and lights are pretty much fixed at about 270mm. I tried 270 and 200 but you end up with teeny weeny itzy bitzy you know what. :mocking:

This one at 140mm seems reasonable:

[trout]

I am soo going to get out the "Skilly" and the tech screws tomorrow Mate.
Great pic's and Innovative thinking Mate :yahoo: