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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1876195, member: 29751&quot;]Doug, I&#039;ve seen plenty of scans you have historically posted (none that I would call decent), but never any decent photographs.&nbsp; I have also read many threads here (even historical ones from before I joined these boards) where you tout that:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/best-scanner-for-coin-images.207598/#post-1458003" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/best-scanner-for-coin-images.207598/#post-1458003">&quot;Scanners can take pics every bit as good a camera. You just have to know how to do it.&quot;</a> (in 2012).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/scanning-coins.142754/#post-1046138" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/scanning-coins.142754/#post-1046138">&quot;If you have a decent scanner you&#039;ll get good pics. And no massaging or picture editing is necessary other than cropping the image.&quot;</a> (in 2010).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-little-note-on-heritages-picture-taking.84747/#post-767492" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-little-note-on-heritages-picture-taking.84747/#post-767492">&quot;And contrary to popular belief a scanner can show color and luster just as well as any camera. You just have to know how.&quot;</a> (in 2009).</p><p><br /></p><p>Either our definitions of &quot;decent images&quot; must differ wildly, or those statements are patently false (but, that&#039;s the neat thing about the truth, it remains to be the truth even when people don&#039;t believe it). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And, I don&#039;t disagree with your statement that &quot;<i>any picture can and will hide things</i>&quot;, but I completely <u><b>disagree</b></u> with your follow up that &quot;<i>none of them are any better than the other.</i>&quot;&nbsp; I think the thousands of PCGS TrueView glamour shot images I have seen are evidence enough that tilted coin images can hide a lot more than my personal thousands of straight-on images.&nbsp; I guess since you haven&#039;t collected since 2006, you might not be able to judge as you don&#039;t have any coins in hand to directly compare to their PCGS TrueView tilted images.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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