1st photo with new lens

[Cleisthenes]

I just received this lens in today's post.   It is a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 (thank you very much Pat L.!).  I just got home from work, mounted the new lens and set it on f/4 for 1 second.  I did not do any post photo "touching up."  The image posted is the one the camera took, and it looks, pretty much, just like the coin!

Elagabalus AE 26; 26.62mm, 12.7g; Nicopolis ad Istrum, 218-222 A.D. Obverse: Radiate bust of Elagabalus right.

Jim

[casata137ec]

That is a great pic! My new copy stand is suppose to be here today and I hope to take pics half as good as that!

Chris

[Cleisthenes]

Chris,

Thank you for the kind words, but I'm pretty sure the real credit goes to the lens !

Cheers,
Jim

[slokind]

I am overjoyed that the 'Manual' lens works so well on a new DSLR.  I found the prospect of rephotographing my entire collection manual focusing through the eyepiece too daunting, so I bought the AF son, so to speak, of this same lens, the AF 60mm f.2.8, and I rejoiced in Cleisthenes getting the 55mm  f.2.8.  I am so glad that it arrived promptly; the postage halfway around the globe is not so bad as you'd think!
Congratulations on your photo.  All you need is some reflected light on the dark edge; Doug Smith, who soon will have posted a new page on coin photography, is quite right that aluminum foil works well.  I wish I could claim that my first DSLR photo was as good as yours.
Pat L.