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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lucybop, post: 2168951, member: 74463&quot;]If one wants to avoid the detail in the fields (pebbles as you put it) shoot from further away, open the aperture to maybe f/4, this will give a more shallow depth of field causing the lowpoints (fields) to not be in as much focus thereby losing some detail. To dull a fully brilliant piece instead of handling the coin, use a faster shutter speed which will allow less light to hit the sensor. This will make your image darker and/or under exposed depending on how fast a shutter speed is used.</p><p><br /></p><p>Digital cameras are capable of great detail and high resolution, this pebbled look is natural to me, as I can see it in the several specimens of your 1916 Fantasy piece with my naked eye, the digital camera magnifies that image more then tenfold obviously because the image is a good 10x bigger then the actual coin in most cases so it may seem exaggerated but it is there, similar to hits, niks or bagginess. I have professionally imaged some coins and collections for some folks on the PCGs coin forum and have displayed a few images, and I often get &quot;wow that coin is baggy or has a lot of hits for a MS66&#039; when indeed it doesn&#039;t for the grade, it is simply a large high resolution image will capture the smallest of defects and detail in a large blow up fashion making the coin appear to have worse contact hits, niks then what the eye really can see. Same is true for a coin with brilliant luster, I like images that show the flow of metal that occurs after the die has struck the planchet. Now this is just me and my method, not everybody will like it or agree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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