What's the Best Image Size for Viewing Pictures of Coins?

[IGWT]

Chinook recently started a thread -- link -- where we posted pretty pictures of coin posteriors. The image sizes of the pictures range from 400x400 to 700x700 pixels. It's possible to determine the size of a photo by (1) placing the pointer on the photo, (2) right clicking to call up a menu, and (3) left clicking on the "properties" item at the bottom of the menu.

 

Someone (I think it was OT3, but I'm not sure) suggested a while ago in another thread that overly large photos make it difficult to view properly or to appreciate a coin. From my point of view, photos that are in the range of 400x400 to 500x500 are optimal for a number of reasons. Perhaps we can reach some consensus on the preferred size of photos that we embed in posts.

[Architecht]

That's going to depend alot on the resolution of the monitors being used.

[chinook]

I never know what size to use. I start out with large (700x700) figuring I can always reduce them. personally I like the large pic. I use a cable modem and have no problem with the pics. I also use DSL and sometimes pics can be a bit slower to load but never really a problem.

 

I also have 2 monitors at my office so I dont have a problem if someone want to post a (1500x1500 pic). I'll just spread it out across both screens.

 

 

The biggest problem I see is that everyone has different setting on their monitors so the colors I see may be quite different from the colors others see.

[James_OldeTowne]

I like 250x250 (dimes and half-dimes) to about 500x500, depending on denomination. However, some coins need larger images in order to display die-marriage characteristics that are not visible in such a small image. Remember though, that if both sides of the coin are shown, then the image ends up being 300x600 up to 500x1000, which starts to get pretty large.

 

Showing paper money is particularly difficult, due to the larger size, and complexity of the image. I think paper needs to be about 800x1600, and again, if you display both sides, you run into really big images, 1600x1600.

 

I try to thumbnail most everything, and have settled on a thumbnail standard of 100x100, which amounts to a 3Kb jpeg file at medium compression, and that loads nicely even on dialup (which is what I have at home).

 

James

[IGWT]

That's going to depend alot on the resolution of the monitors being used.

 

You mean the world doesn't revolve around my monitor? Is there a "standard" resolution (or at least a limited range) that we can assume for the majority of monitors?

[Oldtrader3]

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[chinook]

Charlie,

 

Your pic is 585x600.

 

Great photo!!

[Oldtrader3]

Oops, your right, it is! Photoshop does some expansion thing to the image and this is a larger coin. Anyhow this is the maximum viewing size that I feel one needs to assess a coin and it's surfaces. Normally, I would post about 375x375 in the registry.

[Bruceswar]

I use 400 x 800 with combined images... those work well for me