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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5129692, member: 19463&quot;]That is why I shoot RAW and convert to TIFF only dropping to 8 bit JPG at the last possible moment to produce something all people and machines can handle.&nbsp; I save only RAW files and my finished JPG since the TIFF&#039;s can be remade from the RAW and take up so much space.&nbsp; The only thing JPG really has going for it is that it is understood universally but, in communication, it is not important that your language is beautiful or can express concepts like no other if you are speaking to other people and do not share a language.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Probably 98% of the coin images I have shot in the last 20 years (digital phase of my life) have never and will never be printed on paper.&nbsp; Of that 2%, the majority were printed 4x6&quot; and you can not tell the difference at that size between a massive file and one that can be shown on CT.&nbsp; I once carried a book of my coin photos to shows for reference but now I access my Google Drive files on my phone.&nbsp; Prints are now made only when there is a purpose.&nbsp; I have considered using an old TV on the wall to display whatever I want (changing the whim at will) rather than using framed prints.&nbsp; At my age, the guarantee is I will not be able to keep up with inevitable changes making the way I do things obsolete.&nbsp; Somehow I doubt that situation will change for today&#039;s young people. </p><p><br /></p><p>My interest in coin photography began in late 1970 when my favorite magazine (Grossbild - International Photo Technik, 1970-4, page 8) ran an article on coin photography with a beautiful shot of a Marcus Aurelius sestertius take on a Linhof 5x7 view (Grossbild was the house magazine for Linhof and I used a Linhof 4x5 at the time).</p><p><img src="https://s.yimg.com/g/images/spaceout.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://s.yimg.com/g/images/spaceout.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://s.yimg.com/g/images/spaceout.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I suppose the best of my images today are as good as that one but what you had to do to make that image with 1970 technology still blows me away.&nbsp; I still have that magazine and my camera but neither have been used in the last 20 years during which time my digital cameras have upgraded from toys to what is today a mid level hobbyist Canon RP.&nbsp; Somewhere along the way it became possible to shoot better coin photos than we dreamed in 1970.&nbsp; For my uses, I long since passed the point of needing images to the point of taking them to prove I can.&nbsp; It is like mountain climbers who climb mountains because they are there not considering why they might need to be on top of that mountain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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