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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 1851787, member: 15309"]Just to play devil's advocate, Heritage is notorious for providing subpar images when it comes to colorful toning. Even their beauty shots are not that good. Beauty shots is the name they use for the close up photos, at least that is what I was told by my consignment director. Below are photos of a 1941-D Jefferson Nickel NGC MS67 5FS, the first photo is Heritage's which I cropped and the second is my photo which has only had brightness correction and auto contrast, no saturation adjustments.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickels/JeffersonNickel1941-DNGCMS67Star-15.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickel%20Registry/JN1941-DNGCMS67Star5FS.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see, there is a dramatic difference between my photo and the Heritage photo. And while I believe that Jay has made a saturation adjustment to his photo, my guess is that the actual appearance of the coin is somewhere between his photo and the Heritage photo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 1851787, member: 15309"]Just to play devil's advocate, Heritage is notorious for providing subpar images when it comes to colorful toning. Even their beauty shots are not that good. Beauty shots is the name they use for the close up photos, at least that is what I was told by my consignment director. Below are photos of a 1941-D Jefferson Nickel NGC MS67 5FS, the first photo is Heritage's which I cropped and the second is my photo which has only had brightness correction and auto contrast, no saturation adjustments. [IMG]http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickels/JeffersonNickel1941-DNGCMS67Star-15.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickel%20Registry/JN1941-DNGCMS67Star5FS.jpg[/IMG] As you can see, there is a dramatic difference between my photo and the Heritage photo. And while I believe that Jay has made a saturation adjustment to his photo, my guess is that the actual appearance of the coin is somewhere between his photo and the Heritage photo.[/QUOTE]
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