For those of you without a tripod or copy stand...

Greetings Photographers,

I have had several of you write thanking me and looking forward to "round two". Thanks to all! One who wrote telling of a method he has used in the past without the use of a tri pod or copy stand. It actually reminded me of some of my "trial & error" days early on.

I had alot of trouble keeping my camera still which now the tripod fixes that. I used 4 NGC 20-coin boxes. For closer shots I would stack them two high long wise on the surface of my table and bridge my camera across them with my coin below. If that was too close of a shot I would use just two of them standing on their ends. This latter method worked better because of the shadow the boxes would make stacked two high and running end to end whould not let enough light onto the subject piece. But this worked quite well except that my camera was not wide enough to have enough of it sitting on the edge of the boxes thus it kept falling and I knew that couldn't be good for the unit.

The tip I just got from X2rider was basicly the same concept but instead of the camerea "bridged" across the gap, he advised the use of a very clean clear piece of glass to bridge between the two books/boxes etc. You would then set the camera on top of the glass and he didn't say but maybe the use of the timer on your camera would keep the movement to a minimum.

Going back and taking a trip down "memory lane" the pic you see here was done with my camera bridged across those NGC boxes. But to tell you the truth... I am going to stick with my trusty tripod. Good luck to all of you. Happy collecting and picture taking!

WKF

P.S. This is one of my latest additions which will reside proudly in my Franklin set #2. While this is just as nice as the same grade coin I have in set #1, the other 65-FBL 52 is an NGC coin which is what I am trying to populate set one with.