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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2790801, member: 71723&quot;]As it pertains to photos matching the coin in hand - this is a problem as old as photography, at least COLOR photography. Prior to color, contrast was ALWAYS a subjective choice by the print maker. Papers were graded 1 through 5 for contrast, so there&#039;s that. But when color transparencies came on the scene (1939 World&#039;s Fair, New York - Kodachrome consumer film) the issue about making prints from those transparencies became a hot issue (some via internegatives, some via chemical reversal). Trying to get a print to &quot;match&quot; the transparency was ALWAYS controversial. The materials seems to enhance contrast but suppress color fidelity. I can&#039;t begin to tell you how much time I wasted on these issues in the 70&#039;s, 80&#039;s, and 90s.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the basic problems is transparencies were ALWAYS judged by TRANSMITTED light (duh!), and prints by reflected light. It just ain&#039;t possible to MATCH ANYTHING that way. Same with emitted light from a monitor &quot;matching&quot; reflected light from a METALLIC object in your hand. THEY ARE NOT EVER GONNA &quot;MATCH&quot;! You have to learn to interpret the differences. I&#039;ve got almost 40 years experience at that stuff. It makes &quot;reading&quot; a GSC image a snap for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, starting in the mid-80&#039;s Eastman Kodak was artificially &quot;juicing&quot; the contrast in ALL their consumer films. It was about the time they started using &quot; the colors of your life&quot; slogans. Paul Anka singing, &quot;Good morning yesterdayyyy, you wake up, and time has slipped awayyy...&quot; They discovered people LIKED juiced up contrast and saturation, so it became &quot;a thing&quot;. Kodacolor was no longer good enough. Nor Kodacolor-X or Kodacolor-II, but now Kodacolor Plus. Plus what? Plus all kinds of contrast and saturation that wasn&#039;t really there when you shot the picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I&#039;ll say for GSC that I can&#039;t say for most eBay sellers - at least their photos aren&#039;t blur-fests, like far too many of them. Truth be told, I&#039;m still using Photoshop 7.0, and it looks like GSC uses an &quot;unsharp mask&quot; on every shot. Unlike what you&#039;d assume from the name, it sharpens pictures. Every negative or transparency I scan these days (Epson 750 Pro Photo) gets the &quot;unsharp mask&quot; treatment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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