EVIDENCE BOUNDARIES
What photographs cannot establish.
Every Grade Optic product works within the same boundary. A photograph can support useful observations, but it cannot replace an in-hand review, establish authenticity, or determine another company's outcome.
THE BOUNDARY
Useful observations are not final authority.
No professional outcome
Grade Optic software can organize visible evidence. Professional reviewers inspect objects and determine their own outcomes.
No authentication conclusion
A proposed card identity and visible clues do not establish whether a card, autograph, patch, or serial mark is authentic.
No invisible certainty
Lighting, camera quality, hidden defects, handling, and professional judgment can change what an in-hand review finds.
WHEN EVIDENCE IS MISSING
The next useful answer can be another photograph.
A Grade Optic product can request a missing side, a clearer view, or a different angle. An uncertain result should stay uncertain until the evidence improves.