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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3869937, member: 19463"]I agree all are fine but I can never accept the requirement of 'no postprocessing' when a small brightness adjustment could upgrade an image. Other than the photographer, we have no idea if, for example, the Fostulus coin is dark and the biga of goats bright or is it the photo in one case or the other. I did not intend to suggest that axial should be dismissed as 'inferior' but merely that there are coins that respond to the method better and others that are less appropriate. One thing that drove me away from axial is the need for greater lens to subject distance than my 100mm macro lens provides for smaller coins. You have to have room for that angled glass and my space is often around 6" which seemed a bit tight. I agree that the method seems good for many medievals and Chinese cash (low relief coins) but these are a small percentage of what I shoot. We all must adapt what we do to what we shoot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3869937, member: 19463"]I agree all are fine but I can never accept the requirement of 'no postprocessing' when a small brightness adjustment could upgrade an image. Other than the photographer, we have no idea if, for example, the Fostulus coin is dark and the biga of goats bright or is it the photo in one case or the other. I did not intend to suggest that axial should be dismissed as 'inferior' but merely that there are coins that respond to the method better and others that are less appropriate. One thing that drove me away from axial is the need for greater lens to subject distance than my 100mm macro lens provides for smaller coins. You have to have room for that angled glass and my space is often around 6" which seemed a bit tight. I agree that the method seems good for many medievals and Chinese cash (low relief coins) but these are a small percentage of what I shoot. We all must adapt what we do to what we shoot.[/QUOTE]
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