Rainbow Moonstone, Cab or faceted?

[LC2016]

@Starstruck8 here it is!! I figured the biggest enemy of faceted stone is the light reflection. You can see the huge difference of the stone appearance in attached videos with and without light reflection

While Cab stone doesnt care

 

[fredflintstone]

@Starstruck8 here it is!! I figured the biggest enemy of faceted stone is the light reflection. You can see the huge difference of the stone appearance in attached videos with and without light reflection

While Cab stone doesnt care

Sorry, I like the faceted stone better, and the other is not Madagascar Rainbow Moonstone, most likely from India. Pretty though.

Plus, the video is somewhat blurred of the Rainbow Moonstone. For that matter the other Moonstone too.

No offence if this is your videos. They just need to be sharper. Sometimes easier said than done.

 

[LC2016]

Sorry, I like the faceted stone better, and the other is not Madagascar Rainbow Moonstone, most likely from India. Pretty though.

Plus, the video is somewhat blurred of the Rainbow Moonstone. For that matter the other Moonstone too.

No offence if this is your videos. They just need to be sharper. Sometimes easier said than done.

Well I love both of them. They are very different to me when I had them compared side by side, and are beautiful in their own way. The India cab are pretty under all light condition, while Madagascar one are picky on the light source but the color is unmatched. Btw finding an Indian moonstone of that quality is much harder than a Madagascar one, so it holds more weights to me naturally. (And the one that I failed to acquire earlier)

Thats the best I can do for videos, its already take in 4k on my iphone. You have to visit me in person if you want to see them in HD.

 

[fredflintstone]

Well I love both of them. They are very different to me when I had them compared side by side, and are beautiful in their own way. The India cab are pretty under all light condition, while Madagascar one are picky on the light source but the color is unmatched. Btw finding an Indian moonstone of that quality is much harder than a Madagascar one, so it holds more weights to me naturally. (And the one that I failed to acquire earlier)

Thats the best I can do for videos, its already take in 4k on my iphone. You have to visit me in person if you want to see them in HD.

I understand. It is tough with smartphones. Still, it did not do bad.

Though dedicated cameras are the best. Does your smartphone have any type of zoom? I know there are a few on the market now that have some macro capabilities.

 

[Starstruck8]

@Starstruck8 here it is!! I figured the biggest enemy of faceted stone is the light reflection. You can see the huge difference of the stone appearance in attached videos with and without light reflection

While Cab stone doesnt care

Thank you, @LC2016. The colours of the first stone are fascinating. I see your point. Direct reflections from the pavilion facets overwhelm the schiller colours. (This is what I found in the one faceted stone I saw in person.) But when you tilt the stone to avoid the reflections, the colours are amazing.

I think that with the cab, the curved dome (and back?) are 'focusing' the reflection of the light source from the back of the cab to a small area (the bright line in the lower part of the image), so spoils less of the schiller than a whole flat facet would. See this still from the video:


As you say, both stones are beautiful in their own way.

This picture from you earlier post is fascinating:

It's a similar setup to the one in my 'rainbow' picture. The camera in looking down on the stone, which is lit from the right from a row of windows (see surface reflections). Looking at the top part of the stone, you can see the rainbow sequence, yellow to blue, from right to left. This is evidently the way to make rainbow moonstone cabs show their rainbow!

 

[LC2016]

So I finally got sunlight today and take the moonstone out and the stone is GORGEOUS!!

Frankly these rainbow moonstones looks significantly better under sunlight that they should perhaps be called sunstone.

 

[Starstruck8]

So I finally got sunlight today and take the moonstone out and the stone is GORGEOUS!!

Frankly these rainbow moonstones looks significantly better under sunlight that they should perhaps be called sunstone.

The colours are fantastically bright and strong. They are so bright that they reflect patches of coloured light onto your thumb. It's amazing!

 

[LC2016]

The colours are fantastically bright and strong. They are so bright that they reflect patches of coloured light onto your thumb. It's amazing!

Yes! I have discussed with my vendor and we both agreed that rainbow moonstone looks incredibly beautiful (frankly speaking I think its prettier than my jedi spinel) under sunlight, but its sheen is quite weak/ subtle without strong lighting.

Btw, you can adjust the video quality to a higher quality in youtube for a clearer image, I suspect this probably the reason why fred think the video is blurred