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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1442670, member: 29751"]Bob, as others have stated, I prefer my images to look like the coin looks without tweaking, turning, tilting, standing on my head, etc. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I use ZereneStacker for focus stacking of extreme macro photography images (on the order of 3:1 or 4:1 magnification). The technique is most useful for attributions, double dies, etc. I think tilting a coin to make the colors "pop", stacking maybe 3-5 images, and then artificially resizing the image to be a perfect circle is misleading. Just my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, I seriously doubt that Phil Arnold is using focus-stacking methods, but I don't know that for a fact. I can't imagine focus-stacking being a very efficient technique to implement for high throughput imaging of coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1442670, member: 29751"]Bob, as others have stated, I prefer my images to look like the coin looks without tweaking, turning, tilting, standing on my head, etc. ;) I use ZereneStacker for focus stacking of extreme macro photography images (on the order of 3:1 or 4:1 magnification). The technique is most useful for attributions, double dies, etc. I think tilting a coin to make the colors "pop", stacking maybe 3-5 images, and then artificially resizing the image to be a perfect circle is misleading. Just my opinion. In addition, I seriously doubt that Phil Arnold is using focus-stacking methods, but I don't know that for a fact. I can't imagine focus-stacking being a very efficient technique to implement for high throughput imaging of coins.[/QUOTE]
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