SPP,
I am not sure where you are going with this..?
perhaps you did actually miss my reference to
ebay in my post?
But simply ask a bunch of buyers on the bay, INCLUDING yourself. And you have your consensus.
Some here might agree with you. But I and I am sure, many others will not. For good reasons!
lets agree to disagree on that one.
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Time is probably the most valuable commodity I have, and it would take a lot to remove coins, re-insert said coins back in their flips and relabel them - I would rather use that time taking proper photographs, inside their 2x2 flips.
I agree with time being the most valuable commodity, as it can not be replaced!
However, it will take less then 5 seconds to properly and carefully remove a coin from a 2x2. And again less than 5 seconds to re-insert it into the same 2x2 after you took the pictures, which should take no longer then another 10 seconds with the bare coin.
However, it will take you or any of us longer to adjust lighting, adjust focus and camera settings and hold the plastic in place because you need to compensate for reflections etc, etc,. and, some staples are higher than others and mess with your focus.
Through ANY plastic, you will NEVER get a fully focused and detailed picture. There is always a slightly "milky fog" on it.
If it is not important to you that you show your coins in the "best light", just continue to do it your way. To most it is ok that a picture is acceptable or average.
However, to the majority the important issue is that everything on the coin can be seen in the picture (be it good or not so good) in such a way that it provides answers to almost all possible questions a prospective buyer or collector might have! Details must be recognizable accurately. That includes colors if any, like in toned coins. It is not good enough to say: "coin looks better in hand" to describe and possibly elevate color and condition. and better pictures bring more bidders.
Remember, average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top!! Do you want to be average?
How often have you looked at an image on the bay, taken in a 2x2 and thought to yourself:
I wish it was not in a 2x2? I wish it was focused on the coin, I wish the plastic was not there?
Never? I would find that difficult to accept.
However, absolutely,
if you take the time, to do it properly and have a unblemished plastic and perfect stapling on the 2X2, and have the time to do all the extra focusing and holding. One can take some reasonably decent, but never good or great pictures through a 2x2 or flip.
I believe that the best proof is all the great images posted above. Please guys and girls, do compare the images taken through 2x2s, slabs to the pictures taken of the bare coin!
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Posted 12/01/2014 4:48 pm
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