Guide / Tutorial Choosing a camera for coin photography

[Darr3nG]

Just now, Charliemouse said:

Much better low light, so you can crank the ISO up to the 1000s and still not get much noise while taking indoor photos.

It's auto-ISO'ing up there and I am seeing lots of noise... it may be some other setting, I've not found yet...

 

1 minute ago, Charliemouse said:

the lenses you need just got more expensive...

I'd already invested in some quality glass, so the full-frame body just opened them up!  

[Charliemouse]

2 minutes ago, Darr3nG said:

It's auto-ISO'ing up there and I am seeing lots of noise... it may be some other setting, I've not found yet...

Big fan of auto-ISO.  Sensor noise can be fixed in post fairly easily - if it's really bad it will soften the image, but most of the time you wouldn't notice.  But the alternative to high ISO is slow shutter speed, and motion blur can't be fixed in post.

So, you could set the auto-ISO limit to only go so far, but once you've reached that, it's just going to crank down the shutter speed, and you've lost the photo.

You just have to be realistic with what you can do in low light.