Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-14 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
On 14/09/2012 13:04, Dave Park wrote: Also, the idea of Sony suing anyone after they *installed a rootkit on my PC* just because I listened to an audio CD One of the reasons I by default turn auto-play off, and play audio CDs through a media player such as Winamp. Cheers. Phill. _

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Dave, There was not a phone in the world that looked or worked like an iPhone before the iPhone, and almost everything is a direct clone afterwards. Samsung was the worst transgressor because they started cloning it even before its release, due to their having access to the parts since they w

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-14 Thread Dave Park
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Norman Dunbar wrote: > Hmmm. Apple "stealing" something that's been on Sony camera's at least for a > good while now. Wonder if Sony will sue them? I'm sure Panorama is the Sony > name for the feature as well, so two birds for Sony there! I first used software tha

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-14 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:26:04 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones : Lee Privett wrote: Interestingly the new iPhone 5 has an app called Panorama designed to continuously take very wide pictures while you move the camera/phone and automatically stitches the slices together using sophisticated softwa

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 13/09/12 23:15, Lee Privett wrote: Interestingly the new iPhone 5 has an app called Panorama designed to continuously take very wide pictures while you move the camera/phone and automatically stitches the slices together using sophisticated software to remove artefacts etc. Hmmm. Apple "ste

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-13 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Lee Privett wrote: Interestingly the new iPhone 5 has an app called Panorama designed to continuously take very wide pictures while you move the camera/phone and automatically stitches the slices together using sophisticated software to remove artefacts etc. Both my Android phone and digital

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-13 Thread Lee Privett
Interestingly the new iPhone 5 has an app called Panorama designed to continuously take very wide pictures while you move the camera/phone and automatically stitches the slices together using sophisticated software to remove artefacts etc. Editor QUANTA The QL Users And Tinkerers Associ

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-13 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Have you Freegle/Freecyce round there, Dilwyn? It is surprising what un-usual things can be found from a Wanted posting. Bryan H Ah, great idea, thanks Bryan. I'm not aware of one of those around here but I'll see what I can find. Unfortunately, some of the items to be scanned are historica

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-13 Thread Bryan Horstmann
On 12/09/2012 04:40, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I don’t suppose anyone on this list has a second-hand A3 scanner they’d like to sell? I need to scan some documents (with photos) of roughly A3 size and stitching 2xA4 scans together doesn’t really work – the ‘stitching’ looks awful when the two halve

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-12 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Lee Privett wrote: have you thought of photographing the documents with a high resolution camera? My local coop allow A3/A4 scanning and copying, Boots may also offer something Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com I might try the photography, if I can rig up a tripod, stand and suitable wider

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-12 Thread Lee Privett
have you thought of photographing the documents with a high resolution camera? My local coop allow A3/A4 scanning and copying, Boots may also offer something Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com On 12 Sep 2012, at 16:40, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > I don’t suppose anyone on this list has a second-han

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-12 Thread QL-MyLink (f/fh)
Dilwyn said - I need to scan some documents (with photos) of roughly A3 size and stitching 2xA4 scans together doesn’t really work – the ‘stitching’ looks awful when the two halves are joined after scanning. My local 'STAPLES' offers a discrete sc

[Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-12 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I don’t suppose anyone on this list has a second-hand A3 scanner they’d like to sell? I need to scan some documents (with photos) of roughly A3 size and stitching 2xA4 scans together doesn’t really work – the ‘stitching’ looks awful when the two halves are joined after scanning. I know A3 scan