SHOWDOWN!!! PCGS Trueview image vs. my flatbed scanner shot through the plastic
lordmarcovan
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Laughable, ain't it? 
Oh, well. My scan will satisfy eBay's "front and back of the slab" requirement, while Phil & Co.'s TrueView will do the heavy lifting.
Sure makes a difference, dunnit? Quite a contrast, eh?
Oh, well. My scan will satisfy eBay's "front and back of the slab" requirement, while Phil & Co.'s TrueView will do the heavy lifting.
Sure makes a difference, dunnit? Quite a contrast, eh?
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This very scientific poll proves my skills!
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<< <i>Phil does a great job... >>
He does indeed.
But as of this post, I'm BEATING him, 5 to 3!
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<< <i>Phil does a great job... >>
He does indeed.
But as of this post, I'm BEATING him, 5 to 3!
You've bested me, Lord M. Well played, sir. But it isn't over between us!
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<< <i>even if you did clean the platen glass before scanning. >>
My glass has some kind of funky haze underneath it, INSIDE. With what looks like little squiggly snail trails where some tiny creepy-crawly has moved around on there. I've been afraid to take the thing apart to clean the inside of the glass.
Actually, it is a pretty good scanner. I sprang for about a $180-ish HP. It will focus half an inch off the glass, unlike the old $70 Canon I used to use. I'm still using it, years later, despite a few attempts at graduating to a proper camera setup. (One day...)
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Coin. A rare case where I can say the scan actually looked better than the real coin, which was polished and overly shiny. Scanners just don't do shiny. Or colorful toning. Or proof mirrors.
Coin closeup. Not too bad. Not like those microscopes, but serviceable, anyway.
Big thick fossil. Here's where the depth of focus half an inch off the glass comes into play. My old Canon scanner couldn't even do coins in slabs, because of that tiny bit of plastic between the glass and the coin. This one does OK.
It'll do, until I graduate to a proper setup.
(I'm still using ancient photo editing software, too.)
Since you seem to be lurking, how 'bout a short "Greatest Hits" post? Some of your favorite coins you've imaged, and your favorite pictures from a technical standpoint? All kidding aside, I'll bet the forum would love to see it.
<< <i>Hey, Phil... so you want a rematch, do ya? BRING IT!!!
Since you seem to be lurking, how 'bout a short "Greatest Hits" post? Some of your favorite coins you've imaged, and your favorite pictures from a technical standpoint? All kidding aside, I'll bet the forum would love to see it. >>
Oh boy, I've taken photos of tens of thousands, maybe even HUNDREDS of thousands of coins. It's hard for me to shorten it to a list of a select few. I did photograph some amazing old copper coins at the Long Beach show, very interesting specimens from George I to III. At one angle they have a beautiful glossy chocolate color to them, but at another angle they explode with color.
Radiant Collection: Numismatics and Exonumia of the Atomic Age.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase/3232
just a thought
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<< <i>Hey, Phil... so you want a rematch, do ya? BRING IT!!!
Since you seem to be lurking, how 'bout a short "Greatest Hits" post? Some of your favorite coins you've imaged, and your favorite pictures from a technical standpoint? All kidding aside, I'll bet the forum would love to see it. >>
Oh boy, I've taken photos of tens of thousands, maybe even HUNDREDS of thousands of coins. It's hard for me to shorten it to a list of a select few. I did photograph some amazing old copper coins at the Long Beach show, very interesting specimens from George I to III. At one angle they have a beautiful glossy chocolate color to them, but at another angle they explode with color. >>
Samples, man! Show us a sample or two! Bring on the eyecandy!
I can certainly understand how impossible it would be for you to pick just one or two, or a handful of favorites. I'll bet you get sensory overload sometimes, huh. I know I have, at some big shows like FUN. After a couple of hours, I'm like, "Oh, la-dee-dah, another Mint State Queen Anne 5-guinea piece", or, "Eh, there's another Pan-Pac Fifty". The senses can only take so much before the brain overloads, at least in my case. Haha.