Need some help, which coin photo is better?

bearcave

The photo on the left is my scanner and the photo on the right is my digital camera. I was just curious which one shows up better to other people on the net. I know which looks best to me but what looks best to you? Neither picture is touched up other than crop and resize to upload here.

Thanks for any help!

ldhair

The scanner image.
The color is more on target.

The photo image needs the white balance set.
If it were, I would probably vote for it.

wam98

The scanned image is much clearer. The digital picture looks a lot like mine after I mess around with them to get them down to size to post here, sort of out of focus looking. One thing I noticed was when I tryed using outside light for digital photos, they came out like yours with a yellowing or toned look. I don't use outside light anymore, only bulbs, soft 40's and halogen lamps. What did you use ?

bearcave

2 lamps with 25 watt bulbs.

idhair may have an idea, I can change the white balance on the camera, what is a good setting? or just try them all?

ldhair

Not sure of your camera but some have an option to set the white balance for you and others have settings for the type of lighting you have.

In the old days we had to use filters to adjust for the type of lighting.

bearcave

The camera was set to incandescent lighting, it has an auto setting maybe it would be better?

Fairlaneman

Scanner.

Right color and the coin looks "Real".

Ken

shylock

Scanner. More accurate color due to the white balance issue Idhair mentioned, and sharper detail due to the angled shot you took with the camera. The bottom of the digi cam pic is in focus but it becomes progressively out of focus towards the top.

The camera pic has more potential once you make the white balance & angle adjustments, it captures the luster better than your scanner.

itsnotjustme

ttt for anything not about GtG. This topic is beaten to death already!

bearcave

GtG has been beat to death!

Thought I would give us something else to talk about. I moved my office to another room and can not get the camera to take pictures like before. I guess the lighting in this room is not the same. Poll came out to what I thought looked best, my scanner is not doing a bad job and it looks like the coin looks.

Back to the drawing board on the camera!

Thanks everyone!

coppercoins

Cameras are always better than scanners for coins, if you practice with them and get the lighting correct. This particular pair is a case where the set-up hasn't quite been tweaked all the way for the camera, thus a lower quality result than the scanner. I still picked the camera because it shows the luster of the coin better than the scan.