DavidPine wrote:
Welcome to UHH. I hope you bought Bryan Peterson's, "Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition." It's a wonderful book for people new to dslr photography. We have 2 forums on UHH that may be helpful to you. The Close Up forum and the Macro forum. These people are very good at what they do and they will bend over backwards to help you. Good luck.
Yes I did purchase that book by Bryan Peterson.
What is the best MACRO lens to get for a Sony Alpha A-58 DSLR Camera, in order to take real good close up photo's of coins.
I want to be able to take very detailed clear photo's of my coins in my coin collection and I have not been able to do that with what I have.
Please read all above quotes to catch up with my situation.
Do the macro extension tubes really work?
I do have macro lenses' they are the Sigma 28-80 with a switch that says normal and macro, then I have a Sony 4.5-5.6/75-300 that says 1.5m/4.9ft. macro, then a Minolta AF 28-80 macro lens, an Albinar-ADG 75-300 macro lens, and the standard DT 3.5-5.6/18-55 Sony lens.
I am GUESSING that at least ONE of these lenses' will work for what I want to do. I can take pictures of the coins and a big majority of them come out OK, but the rest of them are terrible. I also wish I could get better, closer up, photo's of the coins, so I can show more detail.
Thanks for the help! I already have 2 real good tri-pods, but what are you talking about when you say the light pack?
Hello everyone,
My name is Nick and I am new to this digital photography thing. I have been collecting coins for many many years, and I've decided to sell a few, but getting good pictures has been a problem for me.
I purchased a Sony Alpha A58 DSLR Camera and SEVERAL different lenses, and I have tried to create the good coin macro photo's by trial an error, (mostly error). I just recently purchased a BUNCH of books on "Beginning photography", "how to do macro photography" etc. etc. and I will be reading them as soon as they come in. I've looked at several links on macro photography on coins and got some help there, but I'm sure it is going to take time for me to get really good at it. I know I can't become a professional overnight, so I'm going to do whatever it takes to get good at this.
If anybody has any suggestions that would help me out, or if you are having the issues, I would love to hear back from you. Anyway, that's about all for now, and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Nick