coin photography

[Nevol]

I took him for a haircut , and said to give him a hair cut like tony curtis and this is what they did to him , I said that is not a tony Curtis hair, don't you know tony Curtis , and the barber lady said , sure I do , I saw the movie  ( the king and I ) 3 times .
 no body gets into our yard without us knowing and we have never
 been robbed ..     ,, kel ,,

Hmm...I think you might have meant Yul Brynner. :grin:

[keldaw]

joke   nancy,  joke ,

      that is a joke nancy ,sorry ,  I know who tony curtis is but the lady who cut his hair made a mistake and thought it was tony curtis who had the bald head and  acted in the movie , the king and I
 and not yul  brynner .   sorry mate forgive me please .. ,, kel ,,

[Fulvio]

Don't you just hate having to explain jokes?

[Nevol]

OK Kel.  I mis-read it. Solly!  That'll teach me to pay more attention to what I'm reading. :dodgy:

[keldaw]

no need to be sorry nancy , you are the same age as me you know ,

 so I can understand what we are going through ,.I do the same thing

 it,s called growing old and it frightens hell out of me every day . ,, kel ,,

[bellyflorin]

testing testing i 123

[6eor6e6]

First is a scan at 1200dpi I used to think was great for detail and awfull on colour.
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Second is USB microscope, the best I can get out of it yet, even so were ar all scratches ?
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Third point and shoot camera set to M manuel played with a few things, detail is great, outside bright sunny day in the shade out of glare, tripod and time set 10 seconds, not bothered to change if I could, stop shaking when depressing shutter.
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Surprised with this outcome and room for improvement.
Hard to capture colour, maybe silver harder ??
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This is just my learning opinion, thought I would share and love to hear yours.
The coin is one of my better finds to date amongst a tip run with some other's a past student collection I would suggest, no treasure chest but a good find to kick start my collection.

George

[Nevol]

To me, image #2 is the best, but both 3 & 4 show a fingerprint that neither 1 or 2 show.  Might be something to remember for later on. :winkextra:

[Fordprefect]

This is just my learning opinion, thought I would share and love to hear yours.

Before you go any further, Change Picture Size setting in camera.

Your current setting is set at 640X480, which is the Worst
you can pick.

Set to largest Image Size via menu.

[6eor6e6]

Thanks Fordprefect, had deliberately set at small, thinking it would be enough and thought i would lose quality when resizing. Would of been the last thing I think of.
I had a 58 Ford Prefect in mid 70's with 1600 cortina motor & running gear, nippy. Might have photo somewere if so will post.

Great thanks again George

[Robster]

Mrs. Robster took a pic of the enlarger stand and attached camera.

[Unicorn]

Very neat Robster!!!  Top job!

[ausjack]

wow, now that's some set up Robster, very nice I am impressed mate :drooling:
and really love the mouse, what a pearla :winkextra:

[markn]

Nice setup Robster.

[JeffH]

Lucky you. I have been looking for one of those stands (second hand at a reasonable price) for yonks.