You have two options and, depending upon the album pages you have, maybe the first one won't work. The photographs got into the album pages somehow. Usually they just slide in from one side of the mat. I'd remove the images from the pages and scan them that way (if I were going to scan them at all). This complicates your disassembly/reassembly of the album, but it's doable.
I don't know that I'd use a scanner at all. I think I'd just a digital camera to make the copies in the first place. The only thing you will have to worry about it having everything centered and (especially) the camera back parallel to the print you are photographing. Ideally you would want it lit from 45 degree angle so you don't get an reflections back up at the camera lens. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote: > I just got the Epson V500 scanner as my wife needs to scan some of her > parents' wedding album for a slideshow. Nice excuse, and for $149 on Amazon > I couldn't pass it up. > > Peeking at the box right now, I see that the glass scanning surface is > indented a bit into the scanner. > > The pages that I have to scan from their wedding album are oversized - like > an 8x10 image on a 10x12 board-like page. The pages come out (the whole > album can be disassembled into a bunch of flat pages - I'll have to remember > the page sequence so I can reassemble it properly) so that's not an issue. > > The problem is: Towards the edge of the image, the photo is actually going to > be maybe as much as a few millimeters above the surface of the glass. That's > going to suck, isn't it? > > How deep is the "depth of field" of the scanner? Am I screwed? > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
