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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2359767, member: 19463"]For the record: TIF's coin is a supurb example of the snakes to the side of Medusa's head variation with all four horses on the reverse clear. Mine is the more common snakeless version with typical poor strike. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just for the record, I disagree with most of the above particularly recommending flash for coin photos. I do use Canon and have taken many ring light images but there are some coins that work better with it and some that don't. Some who have been here a while will recall I did a series of tests comparing ring (top), diffuse artificial (middle) and natural window light (bottom). Perhaps what it shows more than anything is that there will be different opinions on which is better. </p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/96356070.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/96381181.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Gotta be fast to beat TIF to the post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2359767, member: 19463"]For the record: TIF's coin is a supurb example of the snakes to the side of Medusa's head variation with all four horses on the reverse clear. Mine is the more common snakeless version with typical poor strike. Just for the record, I disagree with most of the above particularly recommending flash for coin photos. I do use Canon and have taken many ring light images but there are some coins that work better with it and some that don't. Some who have been here a while will recall I did a series of tests comparing ring (top), diffuse artificial (middle) and natural window light (bottom). Perhaps what it shows more than anything is that there will be different opinions on which is better. [IMG]http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/96356070.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/96381181.jpg[/IMG] Gotta be fast to beat TIF to the post.[/QUOTE]
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