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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2386318, member: 1892&quot;]<b>Nobody</b> can make much of a physical improvement on poor imagery - the &quot;Enhance&quot; button is only for television crime shows - but one advantage to having shot forty bazillion images of your own on a deliberate learning curve, and looking at a thousand images a week from others, is that you learn you <i>interpret</i> those poor images to a more accurate degree than a less-experienced onlooker. You reach the point where White Balance failures tend to correct themselves subconsciously, and can often discern the difference between pixelation from subpar camera sensors/small images and genuine coin features (or <i>the lack thereof</i>, which is the important part).</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;ll say again, there is no reason why anyone whose budget allows for an occasional MS65 Morgan or similar cannot acquire both the equipment and skill to become a professional-level coin photographer.&nbsp; $500 tops - if you&#039;re willing to buy used - to be one of those folks whose images inspire jealousy. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is no such thing as a free lunch. You get better at interpreting digital imagery the same way you get better at grading - <b>experience</b>. The benefit of having viewed <i>every single new US coin thread for ten years </i>at a thriving coin forum, as well as the other fora I&#039;ve participated at during the same period - not only for the images contained therein but for the <i>feedback from others viewing and offering opinion</i> (<b>extremely</b> important, as long as you know that you&#039;re not infallible and are therefore always willing to be wrong, and learn) - is that I now have probably as much <b>experience</b> as anyone, anywhere, at interpreting coin photography at all levels of skill. It&#039;s a slow week when I don&#039;t devote at least 25-30 hours to this stuff, and I don&#039;t have more than a couple slow weeks a year, and I&#039;ve been doing it for more than a decade. It&#039;s an all-consuming passion for me, the place where I&#039;ve chosen to leave my mark on the world.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>That&#039;s</i> why I speak with such confidence about coins viewed only from imagery. And I&#039;m probably correct - within the tolerances of the image quality offered - 90 times out of 100. Unfortunately, it&#039;s those other 10 times I get remembered for, because they&#039;re usually doozies. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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