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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3969109, member: 19463&quot;]+1</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a time some of the big sellers used expensive coin lighting systems that simulated at least to some degree axial lighting.&nbsp; These photos reproduced well on paper but are not fashionable today judging from the number of you that have posted very directional lighted examples as better than the dealer&#039;s glare filled image.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think these images are the result of postprocessing but just a type of lighting different than most of us have at home.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/136993-there-is-no-truth-there-is-only-perception" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/136993-there-is-no-truth-there-is-only-perception" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/136993-there-is-no-truth-</a></p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/136993-there-is-no-truth-there-is-only-perception" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/136993-there-is-no-truth-there-is-only-perception" rel="nofollow">there-is-only-perception</a></p><p><font size="5"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1461.Gustave_Flaubert" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1461.Gustave_Flaubert" rel="nofollow">Gustave Flaubert</a> </b></font></p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1461.Gustave_Flaubert" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1461.Gustave_Flaubert" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1198541369p4/1461.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><font size="6"><b>“There is no truth. There is only perception.”</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>― Gustave Flaubert</p><p><br /></p><p>If Flaubert is correct, his statement can not be true but we can choose to accept it as true or not as we see fit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Being a philosopher is a hard life.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_philosophers" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_philosophers" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_philosophers</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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