Scanner vs. Digital Camera test with a pretty English coin

Aethelred · December 30, 2003 2:08PM

To test what I can do with my new Nikon camera vs. my Visioneer scanner I took side by side images of the same coin with the same background color. Here are the results:

SCANNER:

CAMERA:

(edited to add that this is a silver British Three Shilling dated 1812)

Garneteye · December 30, 2003 2:19PM

Quite an improvement in image quality.

Aethelred · December 30, 2003 2:27PM

I was thrilled with the result.

oldshep · December 30, 2003 3:00PM

no comparison - the camera really shows what we have been missing with scans.
Shep

cosmicdebris · December 30, 2003 8:45PM

What a difference and a great coin too!

1jester · December 30, 2003 8:58PM

"...images of the same coin with the same background color." --Mortuus Rex

...and would that background color happen to be an NGC sl*b ?????

wybrit · December 30, 2003 11:17PM

The scanner's not bad, but washed out. The digipic is an excellent improvement.

1jester - slab cop.

ccrdragon · December 31, 2003 1:24AM

Good eye 1jester - the dead king is busted once again!!!

Aethelred · December 31, 2003 2:08AM

<< <i>"...images of the same coin with the same background color." --Mortuus Rex

...and would that background color happen to be an NGC sl*b ?????

>>

No, not at all!!!!!

It's an ANACS slab.

mongoose · December 31, 2003 2:48AM

Quite a difference Michael! The camera can see that same coin many ways too. Placing the differing background colors (even construction paper) drastically alters how your camera will see coins.

Aethelred · December 31, 2003 2:53AM

<< <i>Quite a difference Michael! The camera can see that same coin many ways too. Placing the differing background colors (even construction paper) drastically alters how your camera will see coins. >>

That will be somethinf fun to experiment with Joe, thanks for the tip.....Oh and the coin!

ajaan · December 31, 2003 3:14AM

I hope the scatches are on the ANACS slab and not the coin.

Aethelred · January 1, 2004 2:50PM

The scratches are on the slab, the coin is a 63.

lordmarcovan · January 1, 2004 2:57PM

Neither does the coin justice- I know, since I have seen it in person. (I'm going on memory, true, but having seen the coin in Charlotte and then again in Asheville, it is pretty well blazoned on my retinas.)

While the camera is better at showing the fine details (and slab scratches), I think the scanner is a bit more accurate in this one particular instance (though the pic does look a bit washed out). That reddish reflection in the camera shot does not portray that blazing white beauty like it should- it almost makes it look like a copper coin!

I see some great possibilities with that new camera of yours, but you will probably need to practice with your lighting a bit.

Aethelred · January 1, 2004 3:42PM

Being colorblind can't help matters. I don't see anything red.

lordmarcovan · January 1, 2004 3:46PM

Your camera shot looks like a copper coin, almost.

Hmm. I already said that, didn't I?

Anyway, the camera shot is technically better, perhaps, though the color on the scanner shot is (a little) closer to the true appearance of the coin. (Which is FAR superior to either picture).

Not suggestin' your pictures suck- they don't-but knowing that coin from personal viewings, I must say that neither picture does it any justice. It's gotta be hard to capture the beauty of a blazer like that.

Darkhorse · January 1, 2004 5:11PM

<< <i>Being colorblind can't help matters. I don't see anything red.

>>

Your flesh is reflected in the coin a bit.

Scanner vs. Digital Camera test with a pretty English coin

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