What do you think of my new zoom feature

[wwwww]

I've just upgraded our photo zoom system on Numis Bid - you can now use your mouse wheel to increase magnification right up to 20x.

Here's an example:
http://www.numisbid.com.au/Browse/PCGS/16576060/

Just roll the mouse over the photo and use the wheel to zoom in. It'll take a few moments to load the zoomed image (they're very high quality photos so at 20x it may take around 20-30 seconds to load the photo).

It won't work well for older listings (as the original photo quality isn't high enough), but it should work for the new lots I put up today.

I'm interested in some feedback, do you think the wait is too long? I can decrease it by reducing the image quality - right now they're sent at 90%, older images were sent at 80%.

[chookcity]

Very nice but could make viewing a large number of lots a bit tedious. All good by me though.

[Fr45h3R]

Hi Walter,
Works well. What a great feature.
Can I ask, what camera / lens setup do you use to achieve that level of detail!?

-rob

[wwwww]

Not much to it, I use a Canon 400D with a 100mm macro lens and everything on auto. Had this setup for over 5 years now.

[trout]

Not much to it, I use a Canon 400D with a 100mm macro lens and everything on auto. Had this setup for over 5 years now.

I have seen some of Walters pic's on diferant sites  and they are always Outanding.
Good honest pic's and well presented.
PERFECT

[Pedro]

Yep, looks good to me. I only looked at the one coin but it only took a handful of seconds (about 5) to load at 20x magnification.

Pedro

[bellyflorin]

well done Walter , I wish some of the other auction houses would take note in how to take photos, you are miles ahead, great stuff

[Australian coin]

Very cool, you even put a little scale on it too!

[Fordprefect]

Very nice feature, My Win7-64bit. FF16 lappy would not resolve at 10X
no probs at 5 or 20. No probs at all on the Vista machine.

The detail at 20X might in fact put people off.
You can see every micro detail on the surface.

[wwwww]

Very nice feature, My Win7-64bit. FF16 lappy would not resolve at 10X
no probs at 5 or 20. No probs at all on the Vista machine.

The detail at 20X might in fact put people off.
You can see every micro detail on the surface.

That's odd, does that happen for every coin? Does it skip from 5x to 20x or does it get stuck loading 10x?

[Fr45h3R]

100mm macro lens

Very nice. I gotta get me something similar in Nikon mount. (D200)
Was thinking of the 90mm Tamron in the F2.8

[Fordprefect]

Very nice feature, My Win7-64bit. FF16 lappy would not resolve at 10X
no probs at 5 or 20. No probs at all on the Vista machine.

That's odd, does that happen for every coin? Does it skip from 5x to 20x or does it get stuck loading 10x?

All coins viewed, continuous loop at 10X, move wheel up a notch to 20
no prob, come back to 10X loop still present.
I'll plug a different mouse in later to check if it's mouse hardware related, will report back results.

[markn]

My computer would only mouse-wheel zoom on the reverse image and not the obverse.  I am using Chrome Version 22.0.1229.94 on a Windows7x64 machine.

[wwwww]

Fordprefect: Can you try zooming in on one coin, leaving the page, waiting for a minute or so, then going back to the same coin to see if it works.

Markn: Does nothing happen when you use the wheel on the obverse or does it get stuck loading?

[markn]

Markn: Does nothing happen when you use the wheel on the obverse or does it get stuck loading?

It got stuck loading.  I cannot see the loading text at all when it is loading.  I've just a reload of the page and it seems to be working now.  I still cannot see the loading text.  It might be there and just be lost in background of the coin?

PS

Very slick by the way Walter.  How good is the cross browser detection of the mousewheel in javascript?