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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2521124, member: 19463&quot;]Welcome.&nbsp; I do have one thing to say about coin photography.&nbsp; The modern online coin collecting hobby requires we do a few things we might not have done in the &#039;good old days&#039;.&nbsp; Prime among these is photography.&nbsp; Participating in discussion boards including Coin Talk requires us all to have a little ability to read and write the English language even though we do have several active members for whom English is not their primary tongue.&nbsp; There are discussion boards online that operate in languages other than English and those of us who have no abilities in those languages will miss out on information to be found there.&nbsp; Coin Talk is an English language venue.&nbsp; All current coin discussion and coin sales websites depend on one additional language.&nbsp; That is photography.&nbsp; Just like I am able to get a small amount of value out of some non-English sources (I read enough French to read Cohen and Latin to read Roman coins), a person with limited to no photo skills will be able to participate here but only to a reduced degree.&nbsp; Our computers have translation engines that will input words in French and spit out words in English but the results can fall somewhere between funny and dangerously misleading.&nbsp; The equivalent to the computer translation of text is the imagery produced by scanners and the vast majority of telephone cameras.&nbsp; Really careful workers can do wonders with a scanner or a phone if and only if they apply a good deal of brainpower and practice.&nbsp; In the long run, full participation in Coin Talk, buying and selling online and survival in modern numismatic society will make it necessary to picking up Photography (&#039;reading&#039; and &#039;writing&#039;) as a second language.&nbsp; Learn how photos lie and how they show wondrous things.&nbsp; Enable yourself to post images that will allow us all to experience your coins and answer your questions.&nbsp; I suppose my capabilities in the French language would improve if I were to move to France for a couple years but I never would be mistaken for a native speaker.&nbsp; I really recommend you make the move to the land of Photography and start learning the language.&nbsp; Like French, reading is easier than writing for those of us just starting out but we will only make progress when we decide that we really must.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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