I just read this post. Etienne thank you for your support on my top change.
I am not familar with the trick Steve talks about,However I find it hard to believe that my top change can not do what any normal change does.
the Godfather's top change can fool the camera as my good friend Glen Bishop has alway stated. Very little misdirection in is needed in real life to pull the change off..
Steve is a excellent cardician and no doubt can fry with his trick. I have seen Steve perform the top change in person.and his technique takes years of practice
the godfather TC is almost inisible and not difficult and can be mastered in a very short time.

Vinny
It would be more proper and instructive to state that the misdirection is built into your top change, requiring less misdirection around it than a top change normally requires.

This thread is running parallel to The workers » » Playing with Card Openers. It's worthwhile looking at both

Ettienne , Thanks to your suggestions about differnt coloerd backs
I came up with a effect I call Boxed suprise. the handling is very clean. I will send it your way as soon as I get my new camera working....I only perfromed this for my wife and it fooled her badly so I know it will work, she is a tough audience

vinny

Steve I don't know of your top change and I will be delighted to learn about it. I think that building competition between two sleight is childish: in some situation one is more adapted, in another situation it's the other. Trying to reduce two possibilities to one cannot be in anybody's favor.

Why don't we talk about favorable situations for each of these two top changes.
Since I don't know yours (as yet) I'll speak about a situation where Vinny's top change is a fooler: you do an ambitious card routine for magicians; they expect you at some point to do a Tilt (Vernon depth illusion); the gesture of Vinny's top change reproduce that but the change happens in the meantime. Thus they are convinced by the gesture that the card in the back is just second from the top. But then you rotate the deck showing that the card really is stuck into the middle of the deck and you ask a magician to push it in... This is very much John Ramsay's type of thinking (and it's one of the reasons I love it even though I extremely rarely perform for magicians).

Please analyze your top change and share with us the situation where, in your experience, it's very appropriate. We all know that, because it's a top change, there is a vast overlap between the two approaches, but there must be a few situation where yours is very convenient.