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Pillar of the Community
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Alright, between playing around with lighting and a 10x loupe taped to my camera-phone, I came up with the following:  Let me know what you think! |
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Pillar of the Community
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Pictures are good quality for a phone.
How did you get them to move like that?
Edited by Canadian-Banknotes
10/29/2011 8:34 pm
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United States
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I'm guessing in your image output - some kind of slideshow. Slow it down. 2 seconds per flash would make it easier to see the coin. Just my opinion.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I propped up the cameraphone, then rotated the slab 45 degrees at a time underneath it. Then I stacked the images in Photoshop and used its animation features to create an animated gif. I wish I could have gotten the images to line up a little bit better, but I was basically just balancing everything. I'm not working with a tripod or anything I can lock down.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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That would make a pretty cool Twitter avatar!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Excellent way to show cartwheel luster  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 It reminds me of the "360 degree view" videos that Heritage does. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's a good start - to really be able to grade a coin based on photo images alone, - unless I can roll the coin like in your animation, (to see cartwheel luster) it is almost impossible to tell a very fine point of wear or rub on a high spot, any breaks in the luster are a dead give away to keeping an AU from a MS grade at the TPG'ers, you can't tell without seeing the light reflect off the surface as the coin moves, a static photo can almost always be lit to flatter some parea and hide others. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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While the animation is cool, one of the best things I like of your anima is it shows the coin from many angles in which one can truly see the coin's beauty and faults form many angles....many pics are seen form only one slightly out of focus picture and ask for grading....many of the small flaws are not seen....all your pics are fabulous  The anima really cool... |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Cool animation! Excellent display of cartwheel luster.
Beautiful merc with lovely toning!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's only MS62, and you can see the marks, but it does have very strong luster, and the rainbow toning is super in-hand.
It's tricky to photograph coins with my cameraphone/loupe setup because I have to have the light at a really low angle so the phone isn't casting a shadow on the coin. As a result you can only see a tiny slice of the color illuminated at any point in time. So I decided to take pictures from a couple angles, the thought, hey, why not animate it to show the luster the way you might tilt it around in the light if you were looking at it in person.
When I get a chance to use a real camera I might try something similar but with less extreme lighting. I'd also like to improve the stacking of the images so the coin doesn't jump around as much. You can just do a video like Heritage does on some of their high-end coins, but the resolution is not nearly as good. This method lets you see fine detail and luster at the same time.
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Posted 10/29/2011 8:37 pm
