I've been wanting to upload the images for some jetons I picked up in France to the chipguide site. Unfortunately, my scanner sucks. The color depth is terrible so the color accuracy of some chips was awful. One yellow chip scanned as white. It wasn't just me. I saw the same chip on ebay and the images were white as well. Also the depth of field is too shallow. It only captured the most raised surface of the chip and the rest was blurred. A lot of jetons do not have a flat surface, so this was an issue with at least a few.

My wife is a professional photographer, so I asked her if I could borrow one of her older DSLRs and some lights. How hard can it be, right? Well, after two hours, I didn't have any images I really liked.

This afternoon, she grabbed a few jetons and in 10 minutes, she had photographed and color corrected a handful of them. They look brilliant. She posted two on her blog, http://tinyurl.com/7m6kbwo. One is a 500f plaque I picked up in Paris and the other is a jeton from Monaco. The images in the post are nice, but you have to see the full size images to really see the chip detail.

Now I have to convince her to photograph the rest of the collection.

-jer