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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2710514, member: 1892&quot;]Keep in mind, very few of us go to the effort of optimally lighting the coins we observe in-hand. We grab a lamp, a gooseneck or folding banker&#039;s lamp if we&#039;re feeling sophisticated, with whatever bulb it happens to have in it, and look at the coin. Maybe we&#039;re in a room - like a show bourse - with bright overhead lighting and that&#039;s it.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we look at a coin under those conditions, we see exactly what a camera will depict under similar conditions. A relatively lifeless piece, which we have to play back and forth with a bit to evaluate the luster and color.</p><p><br /></p><p>The human eye doesn&#039;t do White Balance as well as a camera does, either. That&#039;s why Daylight lamp bulbs appear to provide such realistic color to us - they&#039;re presenting those colors closer to our subconscious sense of &quot;white balance,&quot; that provided by sunlight. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you prepare your personal viewing conditions with as much care and effort as you arrange the lighting of your best shots, you will see the same glory which the camera does.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t use Daylight bulbs to light my imagery - no need; the camera or postprocessing can correct - but I damn sure do when looking at coins in my hand. I have a separate gooseneck lamp just for viewing coins, and it has a 60w R20 incandescent full-spectrum growlight in it. And it&#039;s shaded so no extraneous light reaches my eye, and that&#039;s the only light turned on in the room when I do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I want to see the coin the way my camera sees it, so I know my imagery is accurate, if admittedly &quot;maximized&quot; for appeal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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