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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1465194, member: 26030&quot;]Hey Ovalman, Excellent post.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do find this whole topic of accuracy of photographs very interesting.&nbsp; I have been shooting a lot of my coins with my iPhone and comparing the images to TrueViews shot by PCGS and I have been finding excellent correlation.&nbsp; (Not saying others might have different experiences though!).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The PCGS TrueView image posted below is a great example of a coin photograph that many people might look at and think it was &quot;enhanced&quot; or &quot;juiced&quot; ... However I was able to capture an almost identical look of this coin before I sent it in for grading and slabbing at PCGS.&nbsp; (I photographed the raw coin in a 2x2 plastic flip in indirect sunlight only, no artificial light.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;The interesting thing is I can ONLY capture TrueView-like images in only ONE SPOT in my house ... directly underneath 2 opaqued skylights in my family room addition.&nbsp; If I try to photograph coins under artificial light using my copy stand they (pretty much) always look terrible and I never get anywhere close to the look that Phil captures.&nbsp;&nbsp; (I have tried a multitude of bulbs too: incandescent, halogen, tungsten -- nothing mattered).</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a final note that my iPhone photos are completely raw and not post-processed in any way.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>(Just goes to show you that sometimes when you see a crazy looking photo, it&#039;s the coins that are &quot;over the top&quot; and not the photographs.)</p><p><br /></p><p>One last note, I have completely proven to myself that the CAMERA makes no difference in coin photos. Trust me, my 3 year old iPhone camera sucks -- (there are no settings you can adjust and you are forced to use autofocus, which is pretty bad) and I can make photos that mimic the &quot;color/look&quot; captured by PCGS TrueView Photos so closely, it&#039;s uncanny.&nbsp; (Of course I cannot focus as clearly as someone with a good camera could, and I cannot make BIG images, and sometimes the glare impinges on my images) -- so my iPhone images are NOWHERE NEAR a professional photograph! But they do provide at least a sanity check against the PCGS TrueView&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, in my opinion, the ONLY thing that matters is the light source (the light quality, the spectrum, and the lighting angles).&nbsp;&nbsp; So forget the expensive $2000+ cameras and buy some opaqued skylights.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1958D_O.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1958D_R.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/TVBlack_1958DLincRainbow.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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