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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2786301, member: 27832"]Yeah, I'm not sure you need <i>more</i> light/brightness, because the highlights on the coin already look like they're saturated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The white holder will drive an ordinary digital camera to make the whole image darker. You can get around that by using the "exposure compensation" setting on the camera, increasing it to get a longer exposure/wider aperture, which will produce an overall brighter image. But like I said above, I'm not sure that's what you want to do, because then the highlights will be overexposed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like [USER=1765]@messydesk[/USER]'s suggestion to use fill light, partly because it should bring up the rest of the coin to match the highlights, but mostly because he's got <i>tons</i> more knowledge and experience imaging coins than I do. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2786301, member: 27832"]Yeah, I'm not sure you need [I]more[/I] light/brightness, because the highlights on the coin already look like they're saturated. The white holder will drive an ordinary digital camera to make the whole image darker. You can get around that by using the "exposure compensation" setting on the camera, increasing it to get a longer exposure/wider aperture, which will produce an overall brighter image. But like I said above, I'm not sure that's what you want to do, because then the highlights will be overexposed. I like [USER=1765]@messydesk[/USER]'s suggestion to use fill light, partly because it should bring up the rest of the coin to match the highlights, but mostly because he's got [I]tons[/I] more knowledge and experience imaging coins than I do. :)[/QUOTE]
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