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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2361473, member: 1892&quot;]Unless you&#039;re using really high-end equipment (not necessarily &quot;high-cost,&quot; just kit which is very good at our needs), achieving these kind of results is going to take a lot of learning and practice on your part. Do not be downhearted that the results aren&#039;t immediately flawless, and with the equipment you have there is probably a quality ceiling below that of dSLR-based systems. That doesn&#039;t mean you won&#039;t be able to persuade it to create images the viewer will be able to form accurate opinions of.</p><p><br /></p><p>I, myself, do not care <b>one whit</b> how you come up with an image that faithfully represents the coin. If you&#039;ve processed the living daylights out of it in Photoshop (or the Gimp, as I use, because &quot;free&quot; is a heckuva lot less expensive than Photoshop) to create an image that looks just like the coin, you&#039;ve done well. The crime is when you use those postprocessing skills to create a <b>deceptive</b> image, not a realistic one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I wish I&#039;d have been following rmpsrpms around the Internet to bookmark his postings. He&#039;s done more to advance the art of coin photography in the last five years than just about all who came before, combined.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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