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What Magnification Does PCGS Use For Trueview?

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Any ideas? 30x? What do you guys think?

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I do not believe they use any magnification, just a high resolution camera. If they used magnification, they would need to stitch several photos into one and that would introduce too many artifacts.
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I doubt they use any magnification. The shots are probably with a macro lens and dslr and fancy lighting. It's just a product shot, you have a light box a dslr on a tripod /stand and lights. If it's shot at 1 to 1, you can get crazy resolution (think of a coin taking the exact same space as a full frame chip) on a 24 megapixel camera chip that coin will take 18-20 megapixels, sourced to you phone or computer it can fill the screen of an HD monitor, it can almost fill the screen of a 4K monitor. No magnification needed.
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From PCGS
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Sizes: 2280x1140 (Large), 6000x3000 (Max), 5757x2905 (Max on white or transparent background), and 2905x2905 (Max Obverse or Reverse on white background)
https://www.PCGS.com/trueview

Max size in only 18 megapixels (decimal), which is only 9 MP per side.
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Agree. Image resolution is the key factor here. Would be interesting to learn the sensor size of the camera(s) used by PCGS (or their contractor). A high resolution image gives the people doing the image processing a good deal of flexibility in manipulating (processing) the photo for final output.
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Would be interesting to learn the sensor size of the camera(s) used by PCGS (or their contractor). A high resolution image gives the people doing the image processing a good deal of flexibility in manipulating (processing) the photo for final output.


Based on Maximun size posted by jBuck, looks like a full frame chip, figuring some cropping, you are looking at at least 24 MP, if they are using Nikon camera all are 36.3 MP, Canon you range from 26.2 to 50.6. Assuming not crazy pixels, you are probably talking anything from the Canon 6d II to a 5D, or a Nikon 810. There is also the new crop of mirrorless which are around 30MP. I would think that the camera is most likely a 6D, 5d or Nikon 810.
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