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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1877066, member: 112&quot;]Sorry, but that isn&#039;t true.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, changing the angle of the lights can bring bring out different characteristics of the coin such as luster or color. And yes, changing the angle of the lights can even make it look like an entirely different coin. I have posted examples of this myself many times. But it doesn&#039;t, because it cannot, bring out ALL of the characteristics.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s because there is more than one set of angles in play when you take a coin picture. There are the angles between the lights and the coin, and the angles between the coin and the camera. Move any one of the three things involved and you will get a different result in the picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>But then there is another set of angles involved, one that most seem to forget about, the angles on the surface of the coin itself. And since the angle of incidence will always equal the angle of reflection the only way some things on the coin can be seen is the change the angle between the coin and the camera.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s why we roll a coin under the light, so we can see everything, not just some of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not baseless nonsense, mathematical fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - one last thing, I have never, ever, claimed to be an expert, let alone an oracle. In fact I have done the exact opposite many times and stated flat out that I am most definitely NOT an expert. Now you want to talk about baseless nonsense, that last sentence in your post, that is baseless nonsense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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