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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3342629, member: 19463&quot;]Great photo, Ken!&nbsp; The lights on your copy stand were put there for copying flat documents not coins.&nbsp; I suggest removing them and using 21st century lights with daylight balance and a lot less heat.&nbsp; I guess I need to practice on non-black backgrounds but your system looks good.&nbsp; I had been shooting white backgrounds on glass but that gives glare when using a ring light which I often do on high relief Greek coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Albert:</p><p>Looks good to me.&nbsp; Whether you postprocess or not, there are settings that will add or subtract sharpening, change the amount of color saturation and adjust color balance.&nbsp; There is no such thing as an unprocessed image.&nbsp; There was not in film days and there is not now.&nbsp; We can accept the defaults as set by the camera manufacturer who has no idea what an ancient coin is or should be or we can fine tune things to make them what we want, better or worse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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