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I'm using a canon PowerShot SD1300 IS Digital ELPH, it takes decent pictures majority of the time, but when it comes to proof coins, I would need some kind of shading in order to differentiate between proof and uncirculated coin. Example: my hand blocking some light to show the difference between the coins below, without limiting the light source, they almost look identical.  The tungsten lighting is also not adequate for actual silver color, its giving a yellow cast, what kind of bulbs would be recommended for good balance. |
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I don't know that looks pretty good to me.
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Rest in Peace
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 Diffused LEDs work. |
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I was trying to get the difference between the field of the proof coin, if I don't place something against the proof coin to cut down the light source, it is almost inseparable between the difference of proof and uncirculated coins. Here's another example of what I'm referring to, one is proof and the other one uncirculated, can any tell which is proof and which one is uncirculated?  Edited by macmercury
04/16/2017 8:31 pm
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Left is unc. Right is Proof, in the details...
Edited by Crazyb0
04/16/2017 8:43 pm
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The tungsten lighting is also not adequate for actual silver color, its giving a yellow cast, what kind of bulbs would be recommended for good balance. If your camera has auto white balance, you can try that to get rid of the yellowish cast. Also, for frosted proofs, I try to arrange the lighting so that the entire mirror field reflects a dark area. Alternatively, axial lighting can be used to get bright mirror fields, with darker frosted details. For brilliant proofs, axial lighting seems to work best. |
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Thank pepactonius,
I will check, but the axial lighting I will have to read upon it further.
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Posted 04/16/2017 6:57 pm
