I use this scanner all the time. the dof extends past the recess. you are not screwed.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> 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 - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
