Is TrueView accurate?

tjc2120

For those of you who own coins with TrueView.

Are the pictures overly idealized representations of the coin's appearance or do they really look that good in hand?

Thanks.

MICHAELDIXON

For the most part, I'd say they are right on what the coin looks like. Sometimes they are off, but that is VERY seldom!

blu62vette

I would say they are very very good.

jsf

Yeah, they may be accurate, but they charge extra if you add the Trueview service on to your quarterly submission special. Kinda CS if you ask me, they just raised the TV rate. I was obviously under the mistaken impression that it was a standalone service and they upped the charge then to cover "handling." Ah, a rose by any other name...


Why did they have this more than a month, then notify me? I thought they checked all the submissions and verified $ amounts on day one when coins arrived. This late notice bs makes it seem CS. Just sayin'...

IGWT

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19Lyds

I think the accuracy of the TrueView is relative to the coin. For Example, the coin below is much whiter than the TrueView shot.



This tells me that some "adjustments" have been made to accomodate the starkness of the coin to visually acceptable tolerances.

BillyGoatsGruff

<< <i>I think the accuracy of the TrueView is relative to the coin. For Example, the coin below is much whiter than the TrueView shot.



This tells me that some "adjustments" have been made to accomodate the starkness of the coin to visually acceptable tolerances. >>




You mean whiter like this?

tjc2120

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Thanks for the link - a bit of a wandering read but it seems the consensus there was that TrueView leans toward creating a "beautiful picture" of a coin rather than an "accurate representaion".

I know a picture will always be a representaion. For that matter the image our mind creates is also only a representation. There is no way to ever "see" what a coin really looks like and I believe the concept only exists in a metaphysical sense. Plato's version of chair rather than Aristotle's.

ProofCents

It all depend upon lighting

grip

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Thanks for the link - a bit of a wandering read but it seems the consensus there was that TrueView leans toward creating a "beautiful picture" of a coin rather than an "accurate representaion".

I know a picture will always be a representaion. For that matter the image our mind creates is also only a representation. There is no way to ever "see" what a coin really looks like and I believe the concept only exists in a metaphysical sense. Plato's version of chair rather than Aristotle's. >>



bingo

SeattleSlammer

they really do look that good in-hand

BECOKA

I think many do not look like the coin under normal lighting, the do look like the coin when the light is angled to show off all the features of the coin and that may include color.

I don't think anyone wants a straight on shot with normal indirect lighting that shows off all the coins flaws. This is the kind of photo you would want in addition to the premium photo when selling a coin to show both the good and the ugly.

cohodk

Trueview rocks!!

Too bad it is now too expensive.

LeeG

<< <i>Trueview rocks!!

Too bad it is now too expensive. >>










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FatMan

True View™, like all photography services, wants to present the coin at its best. Accurate? Sure if you hold the coin at a certain angle under certain light.

I do believe the True View™ images have become more realistic from the early images. When the service started I used to refer to the images as Cartoon View™ because they appeared juiced. It looks like they have cut back on the saturation from the early days.