Ever get trembly looking at a coin image......
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....and then see the ....SLAB SHOT....and go away? 
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Yep. I see a lot of old gold looking crusty in the close up, not so much in the slab shot.
It happens and I walk away ......
Sometimes the plastic diffuses the image of the coin. I have been informed on several occasions that the best image is taken outside of the plastic. Perhaps @PCGSPhoto and @robec could comment on the difference?
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Lack of plastic makes taking the picture much easier -- no reflection off the slab, no internal reflection within the slab (problem with proofs), no scratches or fingerprints on the slab, no funny diffraction from optically imperfect slabs. You do have to be more careful with the coin, though. I believe the point being made, however, was that the slab shot shows you an entirely different picture of the coin than the coin-only shot. This is most apparent in Heritage auctions that have glam+slab shots.
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@messydesk your point is taken on me being mistaken...got it!
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Call me contrary, but quite often when I call Heritage to have a numismatist describe a coin to me in hand, he/she concludes that the slab shot is more accurate than the larger coin photos. Not necessarily for the detail, but if the slab photo is lighter than the coin photo, that slab shot quite often tends to be more accurate, and the slab shot more often also tends to show more accurately higher luster than the coin photos.
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Contrast, m'boy.....contrast.
Really tough to get a slabbed coin to look different from what it looks like IN a slab.
That's the call anyway. What does the "package" look like?
HA tends to over-glam the color in their close-ups. Call it juicing or whatever. It’s always informative to compare the color of the label to the coin in the slab shot. Many of the stunning beauties posted here and everywhere else only have all that pizzaz with perfect lighting. The engagement ring always looks good in the jeweler’s display case.
Trembly?? Looking at a coin?
Sorry, that has never happened to me.... Nor do I expect it ever will. I am not a trembler....Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.... The OODA loop...Formula for assessing issues....Works well Cheers, RickO
Next level.
Who was Henry Tremblechin's daughter?
I got trembly a couple days ago when on my morning walk I came around a corner and a large black bear surprised me. After a moment of contemplation we went our separate ways. Gorgeous animal
I thought this was going to be another thread about coin smell
But regarding slab photos, yes, I avoided picking up the Gardner HK-19 So-Called Dollar, twice, after seeing great close up shots.