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Old 01-07-2018, 03:35 AM
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Default Coins under the microscope.

I guess it's time for a new thread. I'm playing around with coins under the microscope. This first set, I found an old corroded penny in my car.

The first one is not a comment on the world today, really:



The second really, really isn't.



Each one is stitched together from 2 images - I really should have used 3 for the "Liberty" one. Also, need to play around a bit more, I'm unsatisfied with these.
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More practice.

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Old 01-09-2018, 10:22 PM
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If you do not have, would you like, a few 1950s wheat pennies which are full copper and a few 1940s steel pennies (that are as you guessed steel)?
I'm not quite sure what you could get from them compared to modern pennies but I have literally thousands of the wheat pennies in a variety of commonly found years.
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If you do not have, would you like, a few 1950s wheat pennies which are full copper and a few 1940s steel pennies (that are as you guessed steel)?
I'm not quite sure what you could get from them compared to modern pennies but I have literally thousands of the wheat pennies in a variety of commonly found years.
Oooh, tempting. It's worth a look, at least.
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I only have a cheap toy microscope :sadcheer:
...but I tried to use it to capture the so-called 'hologram' (not really a hologram) part of the new UK pound coin - and it sort-of worked to a slight extent. :cheer:




You can just about make out how, when the light is changed from the right to the left the symbol changes from a £ to a 1.


Zooming in a bit to look at the tiny writing around the edge that you can't see without a microscope (unless you have very good eyes).


Zooming in some more on the 'hologram' part.
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Finally got into photographing one of the coins Ari sent to me.

Spent the last couple of hours attempting to stitch together some pictures, only to find my tools inadequate.

I did get an 'N'.



I thought this turned out OK, too.



Oh, and I was also distracted by this:



I think this is a dead flower head from a red elderberry bush, but Mrs. Reasons called it "the nasty plant with red berries."
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Oh, and I was also distracted by this:



I think this is a dead flower head from a red elderberry bush, but Mrs. Reasons called it "the nasty plant with red berries."
Same thing, different light.
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So, experimenting with the new camera:

With the full frame camera, I get a much larger field of view, but you might be able see that the corners are out of focus - it look like the adapter I have isn't completely adequate...



But otherwise, I'm pretty happy with the results in general:


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Well, I'll probably just trim the images for the foreseeable future. I've already spent too much this week.
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Well, I'll probably just trim the images for the foreseeable future. I've already spent too much this week.
I understand. Next week will be fine.

That's definitely unforeseeable.
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Oow new gear! And the magic of new gear to be both exciting and make your other gear feel inadequate. You will soon learn that a new adapter requires a quantum tunneling microscope to function and of course quantum microscopes can't run on your houses outdated wiring, you'll just need to build a new house if you want to continue.

Also I'm not sure I ever noticed the 9's don't connect.
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What do bitcoins look like under the microscope? :chin:
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I'm new at this, but I was able to get a pretty good shot of a bitcoin under a microscope.
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Some quickies to get a sense of what the steel penny looks like. Most are a single shot at around 40x, then trimmed a bit to reduce the out of focus area.




This one isn't trimmed, so I could keep the whole number.




This one is around 100X, highlight on the "8":






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Not actually a coin. This was a souvenir from Butte, MT - one ounce of copper. It nicely has the atomic data for copper etched into it. The 29 fit almost perfectly.

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Not actually a coin. This was a souvenir from Butte, MT - one ounce of copper. .
So, did you take a gander at Berkeley Pit?
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Not actually a coin. This was a souvenir from Butte, MT - one ounce of copper. .
So, did you take a gander at Berkeley Pit?
Yes... It was quite hazy at the time, so not much from that part of the trip made it out to social media.

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I got a new camera adapter - one that specifically claims to support full frame cameras as 2x magnification. So, I'm seeing less lens aberrations at the corners on my pictures, but the image is more magnified - strangely, both adapters claim 2X magnification, but one is clearly more magnified. I'm guessing the old adapter was claiming 2X at a 1.6 crop factor.

Anyway, see the difference?

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vs.
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and

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One bonus pic, I bought a 12 oz (340 g) container of iron filings. I had some ideas what I might like to do, but this was a test pic, and it's way more magnified than I anticipated... may have to rethink what I want to do.

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I also noticed it's not 100% pure iron filings! It looks like there's some quartz in there or something.
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