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<p>[QUOTE="Volodya, post: 2830304, member: 19615"]I'm actually a rather competent and knowledgeable photographer out in the world and spent nearly two decades as production manager of a very high-end custom photo lab and pioneering digital retouching studio. I suppose it's a variety of cobbler's wife has no shoes syndrome, but I've never been able to drum up any enthusiasm for coin photography. Also I was spoiled; some of the very best coin images I've seen were achieved with an old old scanner, old enough that it actually had enough depth of field to avoid the fuzzy edges endemic to coin images produced on today's scanners. These images had an immediacy very difficult to achieve photographically. In hindsight I should have kept the scanner as a dedicated coin imager, even though it was long obsolete as a printer, but it never occurred to me. Too late now; it's lost in an electronics graveyard somewhere. I don't think a seance will help.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a random example of the scanned images I'm talking about, from my imitations website. This truly is what this coin looks like. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/image/murobv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/image/murrev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Volodya, post: 2830304, member: 19615"]I'm actually a rather competent and knowledgeable photographer out in the world and spent nearly two decades as production manager of a very high-end custom photo lab and pioneering digital retouching studio. I suppose it's a variety of cobbler's wife has no shoes syndrome, but I've never been able to drum up any enthusiasm for coin photography. Also I was spoiled; some of the very best coin images I've seen were achieved with an old old scanner, old enough that it actually had enough depth of field to avoid the fuzzy edges endemic to coin images produced on today's scanners. These images had an immediacy very difficult to achieve photographically. In hindsight I should have kept the scanner as a dedicated coin imager, even though it was long obsolete as a printer, but it never occurred to me. Too late now; it's lost in an electronics graveyard somewhere. I don't think a seance will help. Here's a random example of the scanned images I'm talking about, from my imitations website. This truly is what this coin looks like. [IMG]http://rrimitations.ancients.info/image/murobv.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://rrimitations.ancients.info/image/murrev.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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