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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2742349, member: 71723"]I take your point, but I look at coin photography as an art and not a science. My history of photographing coins goes back to taking Kodachrome slides with a Canon F-1 with the 100mm f4 Macro lens with a gelatin filter holder holding Kodak Wratten filters to perfectly match the film's sensitivity to the precise color temperature of the lamps. I know that so much is based on choices made.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even an "unmessed with" digital photo isn't really unmessed with at all. It's messed with up one side and down the other by software from, at least, Kodak, Sony (usually), and even Apple, plus whatever other vendor is in your system. I genuinely have NO IDEA ON EARTH what someone else thinks counts as "questionable". I know enough to know that a modern digital photo has more information in it than most computer owners' monitors are set to show.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also know that the Average Joe has no idea what I'm even talking about. It's obvious when you walk in their house and see how they have the TV set to look. Wowsers![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2742349, member: 71723"]I take your point, but I look at coin photography as an art and not a science. My history of photographing coins goes back to taking Kodachrome slides with a Canon F-1 with the 100mm f4 Macro lens with a gelatin filter holder holding Kodak Wratten filters to perfectly match the film's sensitivity to the precise color temperature of the lamps. I know that so much is based on choices made. Even an "unmessed with" digital photo isn't really unmessed with at all. It's messed with up one side and down the other by software from, at least, Kodak, Sony (usually), and even Apple, plus whatever other vendor is in your system. I genuinely have NO IDEA ON EARTH what someone else thinks counts as "questionable". I know enough to know that a modern digital photo has more information in it than most computer owners' monitors are set to show. I also know that the Average Joe has no idea what I'm even talking about. It's obvious when you walk in their house and see how they have the TV set to look. Wowsers![/QUOTE]
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