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If you aren't shooting for resale... I ended up taking one of my favorite trimes and shooting it full frame (about 1:1). Which I then had enlarged. So on my wall hangs a 12x12 image of a 14mm coin (call it 21x). FWIW, Walmart does a pseudo-gallery wrap at a couple of sizes, I picked 12x12 and scaled the image for 300dpi. -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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I watch my disk space shrink; my "Coins" directory is now by far the largest (30GB) on my computer. And that doesn't count probably a third of the total which is now archived elsewhere.
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You should consider an external hard drive Dave.
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You should consider an external hard drive Dave.
I'm still only a quarter of the way through my 2TB storage drive - 488GB used - and I download stuff with reckless abandon. And there's slots for a half-dozen more drives in my case, with plenty of PS overcapacity to power them.  |
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so basically you're saying that you are a coin collector but an image hoarder. Does that mean we need to do an intervention and do you have a TV show?
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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I haven't really printed any coin images out yet, I have the largest HP printer made in my house, it can do 44" x however long I need up to 100 feet. Trouble is matting and framing anything beyond 44" x 60" and at that size it's still really, really expensive. The printer is so big it barely fits in the spare room. But it runs cheaper than the old A7 sized printer!  "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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I only have two reasons why I take pics of coins: for posting here on the forums, and for illustrating the coin club magazine which I produce. Beyond that, they just sit on the computer, just in case I ever need to do one of those two things with them again.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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@Westcoin, holy crap, that thing is GIGANTIC. Wow!
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Yes, we make some amazing printers  (well, not my business unit, but the company) However, and I really hate to break it to you, we now have a 60" printer - HP Designjet Z6200 60-in Photo Printer (CQ111A). It's only 15,995 and you can buy it online although I understand we do finance... The maximum size is now 575 feet long although it's still only 2400x1200 dpi. And the newer model suffers along with 8 colors of ink vs. 12. -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Heck, I was working with 60" x continuous printers back in the early 90's when I was in the graphics industry. It was the beginning of printed full-color signage; resolution wasn't great but it was good enough to cost me my career as a vector-graphics expert because everything "custom" went raster.
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So on my wall hangs a 12x12 image of a 14mm coin Love that idea. |
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I have a work in progress where I am building a database of my coin collection. For the information fields I might enter: Netherlands 10 Cents 1941-1943 KM#173 Zn WWII I then have a field like 'examplepic' where I enter: 1942 I then have a small html webpage that I can run from standard browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc. that query the database and show a webpage based on the hits. I can search for all coins from 'Netherlands', all coins from '1942', all coins made of Zinc, or any combination thereof. It looks similar to any other webpage, but it is hosted only on my computer. Part of the setup means I have to organize all the pics on my hard drive in the same manner. For this example they would be found in the folder: ~/coins/netherlands/10 cents/ And the html has the code to show the obverse and reverse images. This makes it easy to check if I have a coin in my collection or not. Entering the text data is the easiest part, it's the taking and editing photos that takes the most time. -wheatiefan  |
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@Westcoin, holy crap, that thing is GIGANTIC. Wow! My roommate Tim's printer. He does amazing photography - mainly Route 66 neon signage and landscapes. This thing, believe it or not, runs cheaper than my old Canon 9600 A7 printer, with it's ink consumption, it's downright miserly, a great feature, plus real blacks! Down side - paper costs, and not all of the paper he likes to print on has been profiled yet. This beast can also color calibrate itself with a built in color densitometer. The prints it puts out are so vivid, as long as the original has been color calibrated properly before printing, I think it even beats many of the color labs prints I've seen in my days as a working pro-photographer. You can check out some of Tim's amazing work at his flikr page: http://www.flickr.com/tommythecat  P.S. Those are Dell 30" and 24" monitors behind it to give some size reference. Quote:
Yes, we make some amazing printers (well, not my business unit, but the company)
However, and I really hate to break it to you, we now have a 60" printer - HP Designjet Z6200 60-in Photo Printer (CQ111A). It's only 15,995 and you can buy it online although I understand we do finance... Yep I forgot that HP went even bigger, recently, Tim thought about it, but the 12 ink tank trumps it for his work. I think his printer was pretty close to $9K when it arrived new. I do remember it took three of us to move it into the office off the shipping pallet. and we had to flip it end up to negotiate one of the turns in the hallway. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440Edited by westcoin
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Posted 11/08/2013 11:13 pm
