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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2742394, member: 71723"]Here's the true essence of the GSC/questionable pics issue. In my previous career, one of the things I did was make internegatives from slides to then print those internegatives on regular color paper. We couldn't use regular Kodacolor or Vericolor negatives, because their inherent contrast was too high. Kodak Internegative Film was a special emulsion created to ACCURATELY render a color slide so that it printed in a way that best resembled the slide. In other words, it was designed for accuracy rather than aesthetics. I loaded Kodak Internegative film into a camera to shoot scenic shots. When printed, I could see everything I could see when I was at the tripod, from the brightest highlight to the deepest shadow. The scene was captured "accurately". It also, by unanimous consent, looked like crap. It was flat and uninspiring. It was "blah". Fast forward to a concept of "photographing a coin accurately". Yeahhhh, not s'much. ALL coin photographs are the photographer's vision of what pleases them. This is NO MORE OR LESS TRUE for GSC or anybody else, on this forum or not. In point of fact, I find GSC's photos MORE LIKE what I see in hand than any other source I can name, with the exception of very recent Heritage and S/B images. I won't say the same for about 8-10 years back.[/QUOTE]