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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 1106100, member: 2972&quot;]You want to (pardon the pun) focus on the ability to use a grey card and do a custom white balance for the lighting you&#039;re using.&nbsp; Otherwise you&#039;ll always be playing with the color and doing a bad job of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, even when you do this, please be aware that you will still struggle to capture the color of a coin entombed in plastic.&nbsp; In order to best capture the color on a coin you need to have a direct reflection of the light -- and this is a physical impossibility as the slab will reflect some of the light causing a loss of contrast at the same time the colors start to look right.&nbsp; PCGS is able to get around this because they take their pictures raw -- a HUGE advantage.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, all is not lost.&nbsp; You can, through experimentation, place multiple lights so that their reflection point lies just outside the coin itself, thus lighting up the coin yet not causing reflection off the slab -- and every single good photograph I&#039;ve ever seen of a toned coin in a slab uses some form of this technique.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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