{"id":47,"date":"2007-07-20T12:24:14","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/turning-the-50-aset-into-the-1200-version\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T10:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T02:54:21","slug":"turning-the-50-aset-into-the-1200-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/turning-the-50-aset-into-the-1200-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning The $50 ASET Into The $1200 Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Angular Spectrum Evaluation Tool (ASET) from AGS assesses the cut quality of a diamond in much the same way as the Ideal-Scope, using reflection technology.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is mostly used for fancy cuts (any cut but round brilliant) as it has a three level filter for assessing light be returned at different angles. It comes it in three different versions &#8211; the handheld $40 version, the &#8220;presentation&#8221; $600 version and the desktop version for a whopping $1200. You can buy these versions directly from the AGS Advanced Instruments Division.<\/p>\n<p>However, you can also buy the original handheld version for $50 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideal-scope.com\">ideal-scope.com<\/a>. However, unlike the Ideal-Scope where you can just remove the magnifying lens, with the ASET, the magnifying lens is built into the casing, thus you can&#8217;t take photos. To take photos, you need the $1200 version!<\/p>\n<p>That said, you can still &#8220;hack&#8221; the ASET so you can not only take static images, but you can also take moving ASET images.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing you&#8217;ll need to do is drill a hole through the lens at the top like so:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/ASET1.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Note that the lens is thick, so it may take a while. Try not to worry about making the hole perfectly circular, as it just needs to be big enough to get the camera lens through.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The next step is to attach it to a compact camera. We&#8217;re using a Canon Powershot A430, which has been superseded by the A450. This camera is probably the cheapest in the Canon range, but it does a superb job for Ideal-Scope and ASET images.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/ASET2.jpg\" width=\"388\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Now all you have to do is take the image. Whether it be with the Ideal Light, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/how-we-take-ideal-scope-images\/\">another method<\/a>. Below are a couple of the results from our setup. Note that the princess was crooked.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/ASET3.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/ASET4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Our camera even produces good quality video, allowing us to make &#8220;moving ASET&#8221; videos. Once again, the quality of YouTube let us down, but this video gives a good idea of what&#8217;s possible with a few simple tools.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y4XNFBkONrc\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><ibed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/ibed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Angular Spectrum Evaluation Tool (ASET) from AGS assesses the cut quality of a diamond in much the same way as the Ideal-Scope, using reflection technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diamonds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}