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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 4910124, member: 29751"]<b>Beautiful photo</b> - very sharp and lovely design!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Once you have the focus mastered (which you clearly do), you can tweak the lighting as necessary to achieve the look you desire. Axial-type lighting is great for catalogs, variety attribution, and reproduction in print because details of the devices are very clear. However, if you want to show off the luster of the coin, direct lighting will get you a bit better of an "in hand" look. It all depends on your use-case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kudos on your set-up! The backlight is quite nice for auto-cutting out the coin! Nice sturdy build - well done!</p><p><br /></p><p>I still contend that the hassle and fidgeting with glass required for "axial-type" photography as [USER=112673]@Denis Richard[/USER] swears by is overly complicated. I'm pretty sure that coin has some decent luster - which is lost in the "axial-type" set up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 4910124, member: 29751"][B]Beautiful photo[/B] - very sharp and lovely design!! Once you have the focus mastered (which you clearly do), you can tweak the lighting as necessary to achieve the look you desire. Axial-type lighting is great for catalogs, variety attribution, and reproduction in print because details of the devices are very clear. However, if you want to show off the luster of the coin, direct lighting will get you a bit better of an "in hand" look. It all depends on your use-case. Kudos on your set-up! The backlight is quite nice for auto-cutting out the coin! Nice sturdy build - well done! I still contend that the hassle and fidgeting with glass required for "axial-type" photography as [USER=112673]@Denis Richard[/USER] swears by is overly complicated. I'm pretty sure that coin has some decent luster - which is lost in the "axial-type" set up.[/QUOTE]
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