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<p>[QUOTE="WingedLiberty, post: 1442698, member: 26030"]Lance, I am sorry, but I just have to object to your word "enhanced" here. I'm not sure if you are just on a different mind track here, or if your defintion of the word enhanced is different from mine; but saying one is correct and one is enhanced is just off base. </p><p><br /></p><p>I just shot some images of this coin with my iphone a few minutes ago (always love a challenge). You can see my thumb in my new iPhone photos so they are easy to pick out below!!! These were shot in indirect sunlight and I promise you these are all COMPLETELY RAW photos not TOUCHED at all with any software packages. And I was EASILY able to capture both the look very close to that Todd (BluCC) captured AND the look that Phil (TrueView) captured. Now just realize that both of these guys are using A LOT MORE LIGHT than I am. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can see that to show the look that was captured by PCGS TrueView ... i had to angle the coin differently so there was less light on the label (which is why the PCGS label looks a bit darker in the top photo) Note that the glare on the slab is also in a different spot (above the coin) than on the bottom photo ...</p><p><br /></p><p>My WHOLE POINT HERE IS that BOTH PHOTOS ARE COMPLETELY CORRECT and RIGHT they simply capture two different looks that you get when tipping the coin in different directions so it catches the light differently. That being said the tipping angle I needed to use to capture these two looks were both REALLY SMALL ... so I am not talking about some huge crazy tipping/viewing angle here ... but fractions of degrees.</p><p><br /></p><p>So when you say something like Todd's photo is "Correct" and Phil's photo is "Enhanced" you are completely missing the point! I was easily able to capture BOTH looks with my iPhone!</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, what we all really should all be saying is "That is one darn gorgeous AU Indian Cent from any angle".</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1886_pa3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1886b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1886_todds_angle.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1886a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="WingedLiberty, post: 1442698, member: 26030"]Lance, I am sorry, but I just have to object to your word "enhanced" here. I'm not sure if you are just on a different mind track here, or if your defintion of the word enhanced is different from mine; but saying one is correct and one is enhanced is just off base. I just shot some images of this coin with my iphone a few minutes ago (always love a challenge). You can see my thumb in my new iPhone photos so they are easy to pick out below!!! These were shot in indirect sunlight and I promise you these are all COMPLETELY RAW photos not TOUCHED at all with any software packages. And I was EASILY able to capture both the look very close to that Todd (BluCC) captured AND the look that Phil (TrueView) captured. Now just realize that both of these guys are using A LOT MORE LIGHT than I am. You can see that to show the look that was captured by PCGS TrueView ... i had to angle the coin differently so there was less light on the label (which is why the PCGS label looks a bit darker in the top photo) Note that the glare on the slab is also in a different spot (above the coin) than on the bottom photo ... My WHOLE POINT HERE IS that BOTH PHOTOS ARE COMPLETELY CORRECT and RIGHT they simply capture two different looks that you get when tipping the coin in different directions so it catches the light differently. That being said the tipping angle I needed to use to capture these two looks were both REALLY SMALL ... so I am not talking about some huge crazy tipping/viewing angle here ... but fractions of degrees. So when you say something like Todd's photo is "Correct" and Phil's photo is "Enhanced" you are completely missing the point! I was easily able to capture BOTH looks with my iPhone! In any case, what we all really should all be saying is "That is one darn gorgeous AU Indian Cent from any angle". [IMG]https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1886_pa3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1886b.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1886_todds_angle.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1886a.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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