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<p>[QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 3670292, member: 59677"]Play nice is not something CT does well if at all</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=106037]@Rorololo[/USER] yes, you need to take better pictures. These are largely what we call potato pictures (as in there might be a coin there or maybe a potato).</p><p><br /></p><p>ONE picture of the full coin: obverse, and reverse. Cropped to show just the coin, not your living room or whatever. The camera needs to be SQUARE to the coin, so the entire surface is in focus (if you take one at an angle and zoom in, you'll see only a narrow band is in focus and the nearest and farthest details are blurry). Well lit so we can actually see the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don't create a collage - most of us know it means the coins are cropped and resampled and the pics are useless, so we don't even bother looking. Besides, it takes the time you might spend looking at the next coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then add one or two pictures of the feature you are asking about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 3670292, member: 59677"]Play nice is not something CT does well if at all [USER=106037]@Rorololo[/USER] yes, you need to take better pictures. These are largely what we call potato pictures (as in there might be a coin there or maybe a potato). ONE picture of the full coin: obverse, and reverse. Cropped to show just the coin, not your living room or whatever. The camera needs to be SQUARE to the coin, so the entire surface is in focus (if you take one at an angle and zoom in, you'll see only a narrow band is in focus and the nearest and farthest details are blurry). Well lit so we can actually see the coin. Don't create a collage - most of us know it means the coins are cropped and resampled and the pics are useless, so we don't even bother looking. Besides, it takes the time you might spend looking at the next coin. Then add one or two pictures of the feature you are asking about.[/QUOTE]
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