New Style Tetradrachm - Flashy Fun Foto thereof - GIF

I’ve been making GIFs of coins for a while now. IMO the GIF can be useful to describe modern coins with flashy luster & color. Of course, most of my ancient coins are lacking some of their original mint luster. (If only I had some of Ancient Joe’s coins with which to play.....).

This is only the second coin (and first ancient coin) that I’ve shot using my latest fixture. The fixture makes it easy to photograph the coin & move the illumination. I can now create one (1) GIF file like this one in about the same time that it would normally take me to create a conventional flat image with both obverse & reverse.

I seldom sell coins. However, I suspect that if I were to sell some flashy modern coins, a pretty GIF image might get some bidiots to pay more. Wa da ya think?




I’m hoping this GIF image will display properly at CT. The file is about 800k and I’m not certain about the file size restrictions & how it might be displayed at CT.

 

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It plays just fine, but it's too fast! It's giving me a seizure. Give it 5 seconds per frame.

 

I like the idea and agree with John-- slow it down a bit.

It's a good supplement to standard images.

 

Here are the same 10-frames at .3 seconds per frame. I think it simply needs twice as many frames. I can re-shoot the coin in 20 frames tonight.



(I like this coin & the elephant mint mark)

 

I like it too, but I feel like I'm being hypnotised by a slightly creepy owl. Oh, hrm, maybe that's why I like it...

 

I really don't think it needs 20 frames, just enough time to examine each frame at leisure, but that is an improvement.

 

That's the problem with animated gifs-- the jerkiness. On the plus side, the viewer doesn't have to click anything to see the animation and it plays in an endless loop.

The upside of a video is smoothness, but the viewer has to click play and (sometimes) wait for it to load.

I think your second version is good. Slowing it down further may cause loss of the sense of animation. Showing this animated gif along with separate traditional still images would be a good compromise.

 

oh cool, that is pretty neat. i think i actually like the first one better, just more fluid.

 

Perhaps you are being affected by the 50 millisecond duration subliminal clips that are inserted in the GIF.

BUY
IT
NOW

BUY
IT
NOW

BUY
IT
NOW

 

I can believe it too.

 

Here's my credit card number!!!!

1234 5678 9101 1121

 

I like the lighting.

What kind of equipment are you using?

I'm looking at something but it may be overkill...

 

These photos are made with a point & shoot Canon PowerShot 1300IS using one compact florescent lamp.

The camera is set to take all the photos sequentially (with one press of the shutter release). The illumination is moved around the coin during the short automatic photo session. I made a fixture that moves the illumination & makes this photo process simple. I can now create a GIF in about the same time that it would take to photograph & edit a standard flat image.

This last GIF consists of 20 photos (twice the file size as the GIFs posted above).

 

This is particular nice with an innovative way of depicting a coin. Thank you.