I think I'd just a digital camera to make the copies in the first place.
I agree. Once you have the proper lens, distance to print to fill the frame
& the camera body square to the print its a simple matter to copy, just
remember to keep the picture flat.
I've had very good results with my K20D. I've used various lenses depending
on the material to be copied.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
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From: "Darren Addy" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: OT: Epson V500 and oversized-prints question
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 <[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
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