Trying to find the right digital camera which takes pictures of coins clearly for selling?

Question

I am truly a novice; read previous answers but not much help to what i want to do. can you help?

Answer 1

Any average digital camera can take good photos with the macro setting.

I am too cheap to buy more equipment for my digital camera, so I use the following method. It is most important to not move the camera at all while taking the photo. Instead of buying a tripod, I set the camera on a milk crate which is on its side and shoot through the holes. THe camera is about 12" away from the coins and should be zoomed out as much as possible. I put the coins on a contrasting color background sheet of paper, dark for silver coins, light for copper coins. The lighting should come from predominantly the upper right for the shadows on the coins to be most natural. I set the milk crate on a window sill on a bright cloudy day.

Answer 2

any digital camera should work for you the trick is going to be the lighting...

you will need the lighting to be at the proper brightness and at the correct angle so that it dose not interfere with the coin that is being photographed.  You will also want to turn off the Camera's internal flash as a direct reflection off the surface of the coin will interfere with the photo...

you want the light positioned so that all the details of the coin face show up but so that no direct reflection of light enters the lens of the camera...

Answer 3

It's definitely the lighting, not the camera, the only requirement from the camera is that it supports macro focusing. Some fixed focus models may have a fixed macro setting that is inevitably the wrong distance to size your subject.

If the camera can white balance them, and so far my two cameras have both auto white balanced acceptably, then a couple of halogen desk lamps can be used for macro illumination, using the camera preview to check the result, with a single lamp, use a sheet of white paper as a reflector if the shadows are too deep