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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2295853, member: 1892&quot;]Oh, so very much this. </p><p><br /></p><p>Grading from images is so different from grading in-hand that it amounts to a &quot;dialect&quot; of the grading language - visual clues are similar but very different in degree of application. Numismatists who learn to grade in hand well before learning to grade images <b>consistently</b> undergrade images until they learn the &quot;correction.&quot; Learning to grade images first (solely) will form habits and expectations that will inhibit you and leave you overgrading, which is a bad thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>And we have not yet talked about the vast and deceptive differences between cameras and imaging techniques; before you can hope to reliably learn grading from images you first have to learn to interpret images in general because one size does not fit all. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, there can be value in learning both simultaneously, when you have a place like this as a resource for comparing notes with those who have been down the road before. But nothing can, and nothing ever will, replace learning to grade what&#039;s sitting in your hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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