Cameras for coins Public Deposited
[Colonial Numismatics] Re
- From rogersiboni@aol.com Sat May 31 21:39:51 2003
Return-Path: <rogersiboni@aol.com>
X-Sender: rogersiboni@aol.com
X-Apparently-To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com
Received: (qmail 88073 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2003 04:39:50 -0000
Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218)
by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Jun 2003 04:39:50 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO n26.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.82)
by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Jun 2003 04:39:50 -0000
Received: from [66.218.67.165] by n26.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Jun 2003 04:39:50 -0000
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 04:39:48 -0000
To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: Cameras for coins
Message-ID: <bbc02k+rg7b@eGroups.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030601031541.92248.qmail@web40509.mail.yahoo.com>
User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Length: 2545
X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster
From: "mantoloking2002" <rogersiboni@aol.com>
X-Originating-IP: 64.12.96.14
X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=119287572
X-Yahoo-Profile: mantoloking2002
Yes,
But you can also acheive this (perhaps better) with software.
Roger
--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, Roger Moore
<rogermoore435@y...> wrote:
> Thanks Roger. Can you get close ups, such as just the
> date with the camera? Roger
>
>
> --- mantoloking2002 <rogersiboni@a...> wrote:
> > Roger,
> >
> > I own a Nikon Cool Pix 990PF. It has a lot of bells
> > and whistles I
> > don't use and while Nikon has advanced the
> > technology a bit, it still
> > works just fine.
> >
> > I have to agree with Marcus though. I suspect most
> > digital Cameras at
> > a certain quality level will work just fine. What I
> > have found to be
> > far far more important is lighting, filters,
> > background and the
> > tripod or mount you you use. Also how you edit the
> > image with
> > PhotoShop. Speaking as a beginer, I was amazed how
> > these latter items
> > are what really make the difference.
> >
> > Roger S.
> >
> > --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, Roger Moore
> > <rogermoore435@y...> wrote:
> > > I surrender!! I spent the afternoon at a camera
> > show
> > > with every intention of buying a digital camera
> > for
> > > taking pictures of coins. I wanted the ability to
> > > take nice single shots of a coin, as seen so often
> > on
> > > this site, and get even closer shots of defects on
> > the
> > > date or some other detail on the coin. I was over
> > > whelmed with information and detail and at the
> > same
> > > time did not seem to be getting any answers to
> > > questions that I was asking (perhaps my questions
> > were
> > > just wrong). Evidently digital video cameras can
> > take
> > > close ups better when used in a single shot mode
> > than
> > > single shot cameras? SLR is better but more
> > expensive
> > > than non SLR? etc?
> > > Sooo, my question to you is very specific. To
> > each of
> > > you that are posting such great pictures, what
> > exactly
> > > do you use??? And if you had to buy a new camera,
> > > what whould you be thinking of getting? Why?
> > > I admit that I am pretty much lost when talking to
> > the
> > > sales people. I don't know what is truth and what
> > is
> > > hype. Thanks Roger
> > >
> > >
> > > __________________________________
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync
> > to Outlook(TM).
> > > http://calendar.yahoo.com
> >
> >
>
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).
> http://calendar.yahoo.com - 2003-05-31
- 1
