What should I look for in ASET photo?
The first thing to remember is that the ASET Scope uses colors to represent different intensities of brightness and contrast. The color red represents the brightest light in the room reflecting back towards the observer. Secondary brightness appears as the color green while blue indicates contrast.
What is an ASET scope?
The ASET was developed by American Gem Society (AGS) as a means to evaluate a diamond’s interaction with light. By using color-coded images, it enables the viewer to see how well or badly the diamond handles light rays. When you are looking at an ASET scope, you will see a blue, a red and a green belt.
What is an Ideal Scope image diamond?
An Ideal Scope is a portable diamond brilliance and leakage gauge. The most brilliant diamonds have pink/red (brightness) with a symmetrical black star (contrast) and minimal white or pale areas (leakage). White areas in a diamond show light transmitted from under or behind the diamond called leakage – the enemy!
How do you use ASET scope?
To use an Ideal-Scope or the ASET by hand hold the diamond up with a diffused light (not too bright) – see the piece of copy paper taped to the lamp. You can use ambient light but do not look down or toward a dark part of a room. You can also hold a ring so the diamond is facing you It is the same for all scopes.
What is an ASET image?
What is in an ASET image? ASET images consist of three colors: red, blue, and green. These colors are representative of light passing through a diamond. Light refracts as it passes through the diamond. Different wave lengths of light appear as different colors.
What is BGM diamond?
BGM stands for “Brown, Green, and/or Milky,” and TLB stands for “Top Light Brown.” In the trade, these diamonds are sold as a loss, or below market at a deep discount.
Does Blue Nile offer Asets?
Unfortunately, Blue Nile does not provide the ASET, H&A Scope, or Ideal Scope images necessary to judge light performance.
How do you read an Ideal Scope?
The ideal scope image is nice and bright! Showing a lot of red that is evenly distributed throughout the diamond. There aren’t any large areas that are translucent or white, thus there are no indications of substantial light leakage. The black areas indicating contrast are even.
How do you read an ideal scope?
How do you check Hearts and Arrows in Pokemon diamond?
Arrows are visible from the top of the diamond, and hearts are visible when the diamond is face-down. The arrows in a well-cut diamond can be seen even without using a special tool.