The lighting is making it deceptive. Take a picture of another cent to see if we can see a difference in size of the devices? Keep the images showing the edge of the die and edge of the bust in the same show. With those in the images, I can crop them to make them the same size on LIBERTY areas. That would be great.
The best lighting is a single source light. It creates light/shadows without flooding the entire area. Note on your coin, all outside devices are glowing. It makes it hard to tell what you have with this setup.
Single light source on a 2013 cent:
See how light and shadows figure in on this coin's micro image:
Light coming from one direction leaving the darker edge on the other side of the devices.
Too much light causes the color to be pink like on your coin's images. You might try diffusing the light source with paper to reduce glare:
I use this setup for full image larger coins and a group of coins to show the coin in the center its true color:
The microscope uses an entirely different setup for lighting:
The light source is a 12V 14W bulb inside a hard plastic quarter tube to diffuse the light:
Is that for my micro photo images. Again just one light source.
Posted 02/28/2015 8:34 pm
