KarenHolcomb

WooHoo! I had finally gotten my new Pixel 6Pro and the camera SUCKED!!! Then I broke it and was back on that garbage Motorola. Then I managed to somehow afford a Pixel 6a and with the new update it said the macro was added to only 6 and 6 Pro, so I was bummed again. Well, I went to use it today and the update DID effect the macro on the 6a. Here are my best and closest shots with it. I did not double tap before or crop after taking the shots. Isn't it great. I love it and am so happy. See you guys next time... Indeed. We are so very proud of her. 2 more years of HS and then off to Medical School, I suppose. I'm trying to a radiologist for her to shadow for a few days this summer so she can see what it's really about. Yes it is. But I really have no problem with Google. They make a great phone that I like. Their search results leave much to be desired, but I tried all those others mentioned and at the end of the day they are offering up Google results so I'll just skip the middle man.

Oh I'm not going anywhere. I just have so much going on since I became just me again that I find it hard to have time for the things I truly love. Like this Forum and the people in it. Maybe ine day when things aren't so hectic the time will come back. Indeed you are correct. But it's the guys right here in this one Forum that I learned the most from. Both Numismatically and generally. I just hope they know the way they influence others every single day. - Karen

This popped up in my FB Memories for this day 2yrs ago and I felt like it could possibly cheer somebody up. Or maybe even make you smile and laugh. Cause y'all know how I live to make others happy!!! Here is the Copy and Paste... I'll tell y'all what, if studying all these Coins has gotten me nothing else, they've put me into contact with some of the most intelligent human beings that I've ever had the honor to chat with, over on NGC's Chat Forums. There's nothing those old Kats don't know something about. Not just Coins either. We discuss all kinds of different topics and every time I click away from the site I feel like I'm smarter. Seriously. I been chatting there since the 1st day I looked up my first Coin and they never cease to amaze me. Just thought I'd share. G'night!

@GoldFinger1969@GoldFinger1969Yes, I don't think I'd like the iphone at all. I think the Pixel has something from Samsung inside of it. Or maybe it was the previous editions that did. Can't quite recall. I didn't even know it until I was looking into this phone. I like to have my controls at the bottom of my screen and I think Samsung are up top. Or I didn't know I could change them years ago when I had one. I just didn't like that so I sent it back and stayed with LG until my 3a. @Mr.Bill347Yay me! The camera is going to take some getting used to but I really like the device as a whole.

My son is a big fan of the Samsung brand. I tried one once for a few days but everything was backwards from what I was used to. This is my 1st time having one that's been out less than a year.

@GoldFinger1969 Yeah, I loved the 3a, it was a great device. I figured if I was going to go for it and spend the cash I may as well go big. Lol! Hopefully it will get updates for at least 3 or 4 more years and last me a little longer than that. After using my 1st Pixel, idw use any other brand. Even if they do burn my hand. Smh. They do get very hot.

Hi Guys! I'm back with a new Phone!!!!! Yay me and ebay Refurbished! I went and looked to see when was the last time @Mr.Bill347 had made a comment do I wouldn't feel like we had all hijacked his post. He replied to me like 5 comments ago do I guess we're good gor one more day here. @Mr.Bill347! Have you gained any knowledge with regard to photographing your Notes here? I sure hope so. Seems we all have different ideas and ways of doing it, so maybe if you took a scrap of each you'd be the best photographer of us all. So anywhooo... Remember that I broke my Google Pixel 3a and then was stuck with a MoTo g Sux, right? Well, I now am a proud owner of a Google Pixel 6 Pro.Yayayayyaya!!! Yep, sho nuff am. The Camera App is very weird and at first I thought it was going yo be my new "Google Pixel Dang They Let Me Down 6 Amateur", but I kind of have it figured out some. I still a lot of work to do with learning how it is, 60 Mega pixel one 1 of its lenses! But today I figured out that if I slide the slider real slow it doesn't go out on me anf I can't use my macro at all. Anyway, here ares the 1st of my Coin photos that I am almost happy with. Also including one of my absolutely beautiful Grand Daughter Tylee who just celebrated her Sweet Sixteen this week. She has been invited into the International Baccalaureate Program next year. I am very proud. Absolutely no idea how she got so smart. She doesn't even have to try. It's crazy. But can't pass her Driver's Written Test! Go figure. Smh. Anyway, I'll stop bragging in her.

If I were sharing a Coin for advice or clarification I would of course provide both sides and the area in question. This photo was taken with my Pixel. See, thing is that I have been able to take great pride in the photos I take so this is a big blow to me. My ego, maybe? Idk? I'm just super crushed over it.

Ok.... Here Ye! Now Hear Me..... I STAND CORRECTED. Yes. I was totally wrong so many times over the past 5 yrs or so and I am here admitting it today. You CANNOT take great photos with even the worst of devices. Sometimes that device is so bad that it just won't. A few weeks ago I dropped my Pixel and shattered the screen. 1st phone I've ever broken. I am super poor and can't afford $250 for a new one and can't get credit. So, my Son had found a screen locked Moto g play in his couch a while back and I figured out how to bypass the Google acct and unlocked it. I just took my 1st Coin shots and they are awful. I knew I hated the phone the 1st time I used it, but this is ridonkulous for real. My Macro clip on is useless. This is as close as I can get with minimal distortion. So don't anybody ever listen to me again. Thanks for listening. I'm out!

@VKurtBYes Sir. Pretty much. Most Newbies would look at you like you're weird if you mention Die Marriages to them. But that's super important if you want to understand how and why coins all look alike until they don't.

@GoldFinger1969 I have a Telescope that collected a bunch of dust before I finally put it into a box and into the attic. It wasn't what I thought when I bought it. I wanted one that was just manual. That I could turn a lens or 2 and see what there was to see. This thing has discs and I'm supposed to put my coordinates into a pc and when I would, supposedly I think, set it up outside whatever it would see I would see on the pc? Idek. Never figured it out. Wasted 200 bucks. Lol!

I think it's great that we all have our own weird little ways that we like to set things up for photographing our Coins. It's like the most important thing. Makes me smile. I have heard of people using a pop can as a stand for their phones. They say it is the perfect distance from the Coin to get great shots. I never had any luck with it myself. Or with the mini tri-pods. I've broken 3 of those and finally stop trying to use one. Ole shaky hands, that's me.

@GoldFinger1969Dude you are way above my head when you talk about how pixels work and this x that. Some stuff just doesn't click for me. I think probably I make things more complicated than they really are. That said, I think that your actual shot is the most important thing when it comes to how much you can do with it after the mess is taken. You have to have a great shot before you can alter it and make it better. Idk how to say what is in my head. Smh. Ok, maybe this... If yiu take your best possible shot, it could only get 10x better with all your tools you're using. However, I have never had any of that fancy high tech stuff and I've rarely seen a photo of a Coin that is better than any one of mine doing it how I described above. It doesn't have to be difficult and involved. See? And a lot if the time I see people's photos taken via a microscope and they are 360° with all the distortion and getting in so close that idek what part of the Coin I'm looking at. Last tidbit, never get closer to a Coin until you've pulled back from it first. Probably none of that makes sense. Ooops.

I mean, I've seen where people sell empty slabs on eBay, or somewhere. I never looked at the ads but assumed one point in time that they had a Graded Coin inside and for whatever reason, most likely theft/Burglaries, and then so would also have barcodes and grades, etc on those slabs and would ultimately be filled with Coins that do not meet the criteria on the labels. Is that how they work? Or am I off in left field on that?