Coin Camera With Database

[Peter 615]

Do you know your banknotes, Peter?

A client of mine has a Somerset £50 with the serial A01.

Is that anything exciting?

Not really Declan

My 2004 Rotographic books Somerset A01 in AU £120.

The reference RB194 refers.

I started with 10/- notes after I was given/discovered a 1940 unopened wage packet.

It had 2 10/- notes.

I sought out more and also amassed £1 notes.

The rare ones are replacement type with a M prefix.

You get scammers in the note field with ironing being the main cheat.

(surprising there are not more female collectors )

Maybe the rainbow coin boys might like to add notes to their collections.

Now where did I leave my florescent pens?

[declanwmagee 122]

Thanks for checking anyway Peter - it's the same collector who amassed those sovereigns, so anything he collected automatically gets checked out now!

[pies 33]

This is my set up and i still get rubbish pics .I move it to the natural light when taking a pic and i have a wireless remote.I have tried everything i can to get better pics.

[Coinery 926]

This is my set up and i still get rubbish pics .I move it to the natural light when taking a pic and i have a wireless remote.I have tried everything i can to get better pics.

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All I can say Pies is it's a big old pain in the arse!

I'm waiting on the arrival of some 18% grey sheet to start tinkering with my White Balance, as this is the key to professional pictures IMHO! It's certainly where my own photography is suffering!

[pies 33]

All I can say Pies is it's a big old pain in the arse!

I'm waiting on the arrival of some 18% grey sheet to start tinkering with my White Balance, as this is the key to professional pictures IMHO! It's certainly where my own photography is suffering!

What makes it worse it my dad was a pro photographer for 10 years

Edited October 29, 2013 by pies

[Peckris 579]

This is my set up and i still get rubbish pics .I move it to the natural light when taking a pic and i have a wireless remote.I have tried everything i can to get better pics.

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Nothing wrong with the equipment there. I suspect it's your light source. If "natural", is the camera casting a shadow?

[Gary1000 41]

Guess what arrived in the post today, that was quick. I'll give it a try when I get home tonight. Looking at it there's plenty of profit margin in it, won't be long before they are starting at 99p.

[Gary D 76]

Guess what arrived in the post today, that was quick. I'll give it a try when I get home tonight. Looking at it there's plenty of profit margin in it, won't be long before they are starting at 99p.

Well it's a business card scanner made by Shixin. The best bit is it doesn't work. When I turn it on a prompt tells me that it has malfunctioned

Edited November 2, 2013 by Gary D

[davidrj 194]

Apologies for that Gary, if it's any consolation, mine arrived today - looks cheap tatt

will have a play later

[Gary D 76]

Apologies for that Gary, if it's any consolation, mine arrived today - looks cheap tatt

will have a play later

It would be good to know if yours works. I'm running XP and it comes up as an unknown device, digging deeper it says that it has malfunctioned and should be changed for a working unit.

Yes is does look cheap. The Shixin website suggests they should be about £28 so I guess we didn't pay too much over the top.

[davidrj 194]

Test 1 (gloomy daylight)

Test 2 (gloomy daylight)

Edited November 3, 2013 by davidrj

[davidrj 194]

test3 - a very darkly toned Thai 2 Att (built in LED)

Test 4

previous 3 cleaned up and composited

[davidrj 194]

My opinion - very quick and easy to use so probably fine for listing some of my surplus crap duplicates on Ebay, sadly NOT good enough to catalogue my collection

[Peckris 579]

Unfortunately those pictures are in the execrable Photofucket, so the same size as they are here Do you have any selected enlargements David? Those would prove whether this thing is any good or not.

[davidrj 194]

Unfortunately those pictures are in the execrable Photofucket, so the same size as they are here Do you have any selected enlargements David? Those would prove whether this thing is any good or not.

crop from 1967 penny

[Peckris 579]

Unfortunately those pictures are in the execrable Photofucket, so the same size as they are here Do you have any selected enlargements David? Those would prove whether this thing is any good or not.

crop from 1967 penny

Hmm. That's worse than my 150 dpi scans blown up in Photoshop! Well, certainly no better.

[Peter 615]

Mine has arrived.

Old faithful Acer should be back on the road later this week for a test run.

Looks fine for ripping Ebay listings and the less important coins in my collection (do I really need fantastic images of my George V1 1/4d's?)

Stamps,banknotes,ciggie cards and a (few images from my Jazz Mags ) I have high hopes for.

For just over £40 delivered from HK I don't begrudge the seller.It can only be improved on.

[Gary D 76]

I finally got mine working with my sons laptop which runs Vista. I guess it's a driver problem with my XP desk top.

[davidrj 194]

I finally got mine working with my sons laptop which runs Vista. I guess it's a driver problem with my XP desk top.

try downloading a generic XP USB2.0 camera driver

[davidrj 194]

This one looks interesting & more info

This one's 5MP, and looks sturdier than the one we've been discussing above

[Peckris 579]

This one looks interesting & more info

This one's 5MP, and looks sturdier than the one we've been discussing above

That does look interesting, and there's a Mac version too. It says it's a document camera - I would hope it has enough depth of field for even the most raised or deep engraved coin design? (I'm especially thinking 1797 twopence here). One problem is that unlike one rival, it doesn't come with a built-in LED light.

[Garrett 76]

Just found this thread while searching for the photography section.

I had read the excellent article Paulus had posted and walked into a camera shop only to find nothing with prices on apart from $20/week and stuff like that. Second camera shop and all the assistants were too busy (it was a Saturday morning).

Ended up giving in and found this camera on eBay. Thought WTF $60-00 US, give it a go.

Was going to write how crap it is and warn everyone but saw Davids photo's above, I can't get near that so must be doing something wrong.

Will go back and try again.

cheers

Garrett.

[Garrett 76]

Okay that's better, still not brilliant but better. I did have some of the config wrong.

Might try again later in natural light. Takes some maneuvering to get the lighting okay.....

cheers

Garrett.

[davidrj 194]

I got far better results with daylight, the built in lamp is shite inadequate

[Garrett 76]

Thanks David

More experimentation is required, perhaps a few beers later on and I will get creative.

This was my effort just now in natural light. Direct sunlight was abhorrent, this was in the shade. Maybe I could try some tin foil to reflect the light....

Anyway, it's been fun, and will do me for now.

cheers and thanks

Garrett.