my best day yet, better pics!!!!

[shaun7]

crusader took me on another one of his fields today, which was apparently a pretty bad one!

i got a saxon pinhead on my second dig
a small roman coin
medieval spectacle buckle
and then my favourite find of the day, a nice hammered coin! been waiting ages for one of these!

 

[shaun7]

Re: my best day yet!!!!

i just bought a camera to get some better pics!

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: my best day yet!!!!

i just bought a camera to get some better pics!

excellent

 

[Nate in Ga]

Re: my best day yet!!!!

You do realise I got work to do today... But seeing those finds has thrown my plans into chaos.

I am now about to throw some sandwiches and a thermos into my rucksack and head off to my ploughed field.

I hope you feel happy now, this is all your fault....

THIS

 

[woody50]

Re: my best day yet!!!!

i just bought a camera to get some better pics!

Thats great news Shaun. Take your time and try out macros and stuff. Try it in daylight (not
direct daylight though).... Will look at the photos after sendiing this...

 

[woody50]

The photos are much better now, more than 10x as large. I would try for something larger say about 50-80 kb if you can.
Also you have to work on the focus still a bit, the pin is wonderful. If the pin photo was say 2-3 times larger it would be perfect.
For instance the photo of my 'enlargement' equipment is 76k...

Yea I know, you like the pin the best and did your best on taking the photo of it!

If you later make a sort of tripod (you can't use a normal one to make macros) to hold your camera and get it to focus with
a macro setting you can just put an object in the field and take the photo. Then just replace the objects and click away.
I don't touch anything then, only if the object is larger (higher)...

I used an old photo enlarger that I got for free from a photo shop here, just went in and asked if they had something like
that. He went upstairs, got one and gave it to me. Works perfect.

Here is a photo of it, you can raise the camera very high and very low, there are two apart up and down movements.

 

[shaun7]

The photos are much better now, more than 10x as large. I would try for something larger say about 50-80 kb if you can.
Also you have to work on the focus still a bit, the pin is wonderful. If the pin photo was say 2-3 times larger it would be perfect.
For instance the photo of my 'enlargement' equipment is 76k...

Yea I know, you like the pin the best and did your best on taking the photo of it!

If you later make a sort of tripod (you can't use a normal one to make macros) to hold your camera and get it to focus with
a macro setting you can just put an object in the field and take the photo. Then just replace the objects and click away.
I don't touch anything then, only if the object is larger (higher)...

I used an old photo enlarger that I got for free from a photo shop here, just went in and asked if they had something like
that. He went upstairs, got one and gave it to me. Works perfect.

Here is a photo of it, you can raise the camera very high and very low, there are two apart up and down movements.

woody, if i start finding as much as you, i met look into getting one of those

 

[Trond]

Beautiful finds.

 

[shaun7]

Beautiful finds.

thanks

 

[Steve_UK]

The photos are much better now, more than 10x as large. I would try for something larger say about 50-80 kb if you can.
Also you have to work on the focus still a bit, the pin is wonderful. If the pin photo was say 2-3 times larger it would be perfect.
For instance the photo of my 'enlargement' equipment is 76k...

Yea I know, you like the pin the best and did your best on taking the photo of it!

If you later make a sort of tripod (you can't use a normal one to make macros) to hold your camera and get it to focus with
a macro setting you can just put an object in the field and take the photo. Then just replace the objects and click away.
I don't touch anything then, only if the object is larger (higher)...

I used an old photo enlarger that I got for free from a photo shop here, just went in and asked if they had something like
that. He went upstairs, got one and gave it to me. Works perfect.

Here is a photo of it, you can raise the camera very high and very low, there are two apart up and down movements.

woody, if i start finding as much as you, i met look into getting one of those

I just found this in the attic Shaun.. Just the job, nice and portable.

Yours for a tenner, and it comes with my famous 3 minute guarantee...

 

[shaun7]

The photos are much better now, more than 10x as large. I would try for something larger say about 50-80 kb if you can.
Also you have to work on the focus still a bit, the pin is wonderful. If the pin photo was say 2-3 times larger it would be perfect.
For instance the photo of my 'enlargement' equipment is 76k...

Yea I know, you like the pin the best and did your best on taking the photo of it!

If you later make a sort of tripod (you can't use a normal one to make macros) to hold your camera and get it to focus with
a macro setting you can just put an object in the field and take the photo. Then just replace the objects and click away.
I don't touch anything then, only if the object is larger (higher)...

I used an old photo enlarger that I got for free from a photo shop here, just went in and asked if they had something like
that. He went upstairs, got one and gave it to me. Works perfect.

Here is a photo of it, you can raise the camera very high and very low, there are two apart up and down movements.

woody, if i start finding as much as you, i met look into getting one of those

I just found this in the attic Shaun.. Just the job, nice and portable.

Yours for a tenner, and it comes with my famous 3 minute guarantee...

tesco's are doing them for a fiver!

 

[Steve_UK]

OK... If I tell Crusader it's Saxon, do you think he'll fall for it?

 

[tymcmurray]

Great finds!

 

[CRUSADER]

Much better pictures

 

[shaun7]

OK... If I tell Crusader it's Saxon, do you think he'll fall for it?

thats funny, but no!

cru really knows his stuff! if you find crap and ask him what it is, its in the hedge before he answers you


anyway the saxons didn't have cameras

 

[Steve_UK]

OK... If I tell Crusader it's Saxon, do you think he'll fall for it?

thats funny, but no!

cru really knows his stuff! if you find crap and ask him what it is, its in the hedge before he answers you


anyway the saxons didn't have cameras

If i send 90% of my recent finds to him. he can chuck that in the hedge too... my wheelie bin is full!

Seriously though, I love his posts... and really appreciate his help. Don't tell him though.....

 

[WhiteHunter]

super day out

 

[Silver Searcher]

Great finds shaun love the Saxon pin head Crusader beware site that usually produce Saxon pins normally produce the Saxon sceats

 

[CRUSADER]

Great finds shaun love the Saxon pin head Crusader beware site that usually produce Saxon pins normally produce the Saxon sceats

I said, I hoped there would be a Saxon Coin (don't care what but a sceat would be preferred), but we are doing it quite well & only have a small section left. If it ever got ploughed again (which is unlikely, due to it being a nature type reserve), we would do it. Otherwise its been a low priority field. I've only found 1 Saxon pinhead but that field produced nothing else Saxon :P

 

[Silver Searcher]

Great finds shaun love the Saxon pin head Crusader beware site that usually produce Saxon pins normally produce the Saxon sceats

I said, I hoped there would be a Saxon Coin (don't care what but a sceat would be preferred), but we are doing it quite well & only have a small section left. If it ever got ploughed again (which is unlikely, gone to it being a nature type reserve), we would do it. Otherwise its been a low priority field. I've only found 1 Saxon pinhead but that field produced nothing else Saxon :P

Shame it's not getting ploughed again shauns Hammered looks a bit like a Richard111 has he had a ID

 

[CRUSADER]

Great finds shaun love the Saxon pin head Crusader beware site that usually produce Saxon pins normally produce the Saxon sceats

I said, I hoped there would be a Saxon Coin (don't care what but a sceat would be preferred), but we are doing it quite well & only have a small section left. If it ever got ploughed again (which is unlikely, gone to it being a nature type reserve), we would do it. Otherwise its been a low priority field. I've only found 1 Saxon pinhead but that field produced nothing else Saxon :P

Shame it's not getting ploughed again shauns Hammered looks a bit like a Richard111 has he had a ID

Funny I thought that, when I first looked at it. Its a H, clipping took the top off. So one of the later Henry's halfpennies.