You can't get good results from that lighting, and your lens cannot achieve focus that close to the subject.
You are more in need of tethering than anything else, so you can focus on your monitor. No viewfinder is large enough to see the kind of focus we...
I don't see that as odd. You know what you're doing and have every right to trust your gut. And the people you're blowing off are thieves, who...
All other things being equal, the farther away you can place a lens while still achieving sharp 1:1 of the coin on the sensor is a great boon to...
That is a percentage of the axial lighting process. The part you're missing is that any direct illumination of the coin has to be blocked - all...
You underestimate my level of altruism, I guess.
All true, but the point I wish to make is, if you can't afford to absorb those aberrations as a cost of business, you're selling the wrong stuff....
The minimum focus distance rating of your 105 is the same as Canon's - about 12". I have found that time and again to be conservative on Canon's...
These are 100% crops of the closest I could satisfactorily focus a Canon 100mm Macro, on an 18MP T2i sensor. They are completely unprocessed; I...
Wow. That makes me feel terrible for the buyer.
All the same, the first coin looks too chattery to me.
I learn more personally by doing stuff like this than anything else I do with numismatics.
If you look at it from a strict rarity standpoint, the issue we're ridiculing here has it in spades by comparison to its' peers. What it lacks -...
It occurs to me, with your new image, that one doesn't even look FS.
The major difference in imaging technique - I actually think the second one is a scan - makes comparative evaluation all but impossible. Based on...
Not worth getting worked up over. I wouldn't have bothered restoring it; more likely just a lock. Restoring it reeks of vindictiveness.
No, I'd question it instantly. It doesn't appear to follow the appropriate toning progression, especially near the rim. The rim should be...
That's unfortunate, chicken man. Acetone will make that tape residue go away completely, but then you'll be left with.... ....coins of a...
Liquidate. I say this with such firmness because I "know" you from long interaction online, and there's no doubt in my mind whatever you replace...
Detecting is the same mindset as VAMming, a form of love. Like any form of love, you don't get to decide whether you have it, only if you're going...
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