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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2710622, member: 1892"]It's exacerbated by the fact that one's opinion of coins offered online is wholly dependent upon the quality and character of the images offered, and few are better-qualified to understand better than I just how radically you can alter the appearance of a coin either by subtle manipulation of the photograpic circumstances or in postprocessing. These people deliberately spin the character of their imaging to emphasize the virtues of their coins, and minimize the faults, to take deliberate advantage of the less-sophisticated understanding of their buying audience who don't know how radically simple lighting regimen can alter the character of the resulting image, and profit more greatly than a more nuanced, honest evaluation of the coin <b>should</b> produce. </p><p><br /></p><p>Blame them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2710622, member: 1892"]It's exacerbated by the fact that one's opinion of coins offered online is wholly dependent upon the quality and character of the images offered, and few are better-qualified to understand better than I just how radically you can alter the appearance of a coin either by subtle manipulation of the photograpic circumstances or in postprocessing. These people deliberately spin the character of their imaging to emphasize the virtues of their coins, and minimize the faults, to take deliberate advantage of the less-sophisticated understanding of their buying audience who don't know how radically simple lighting regimen can alter the character of the resulting image, and profit more greatly than a more nuanced, honest evaluation of the coin [B]should[/B] produce. Blame them.[/QUOTE]
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