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Jim1953 Pillar of the Community United States 2600 Posts	Posted 09/02/2007 10:57 am Do many of us use a scanner to post images of coins? I do not have the ability to leave my camera setup all the time which preempts me from adding pics to some posts. Sometimes I just do not have the time to setup and a scanner seems like a reasonable option when in a hurry. Anyway, just curious what your experience has been. Jim Report this Post to the Staff

SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 09/02/2007 11:42 am Some people use scanners to good effect - Ageka comes to mind, but he has a good scanner and great skill. Clear scanned pictures are an excellent indicator of physical condition, but don't properly represent color and luster. There's nothing wrong with posting scanned pics for study here - just be aware that we'll have to ask your opinion of luster, and probably which side of the AU/MS border the coin is on. With those caveats, I am just as happy looking at scanned pics as at snapped ones. Report this Post to the Staff
Jim1953 Pillar of the Community United States 2600 Posts	Posted 09/02/2007 12:58 pm Thx, Dave. Report this Post to the Staff
ageka Pillar of the Community Belgium 2078 Posts	Posted 09/02/2007 2:19 pm Dave As you are aware I have been struggling for weeks now buying a dualcore supercomputer and a digital reflex camera Canon 30D and I worked 8 years with colorcomputers in Cie lab mode First my 9 year old secondhand photoscanner still outperforms my camera Some observations I arrived at is that the scanner does in-scanner adjustments and then transfers to a propriatary photomanagement system iphoto plus and then I crop and save as bitmap files which I used to view on a crt ( cathode ray canon ) monitor to enjoy or photograde Well it took me 2 weeks for the 19" TFT LCD external monitor to come even close to the lustre I took for granted . I told my wife the crt stays as stand by and I told my laptop it had no truebright screen and that the desktop matte was its only monitor Second I spend the last two days to understand bitmaps versus RGB 24 bits which is the standard photoshop will work in (3x8 bits) Now that I understand I went and put photoshop on Cie lab and I understand the histograms .I also understand that like in math you save in 3x16 bits to avoid rounding off complications . Camera wise I concluded I will need to put the camera in RAW mode ; get the real Kelvin temperature of full spectrum lights and then experiment with the quantity and placement of the lights Also it was a mistake to put the camera on spot measurement which is only 3.5% central when I want to show a screenshot with box etc in the shot . I used three coins side by side to calibrate my monitor because I know what they looked like on the crt Report this Post to the Staff
ageka Pillar of the Community Belgium 2078 Posts	Posted 09/02/2007 2:32 pm First I want you to meet Ermesinde Very reddish gold at 300 dpi MS64 like Report this Post to the Staff
ageka Pillar of the Community Belgium 2078 Posts	Posted 09/02/2007 2:39 pm Now meet Sirikit Very yellowish gold and easily an MS67 Report this Post to the Staff
ageka Pillar of the Community Belgium 2078 Posts	Posted 09/02/2007 2:46 pm And finally the Babenberger MS64 orange gold If your LCD gives you these tones congratulations cause it took me two weeks to get those right and only at the top of the screen with the right inclination of my five wheeled chair Something an old fashioned crt with phospor coating did automatically Report this Post to the Staff
onejinx Pillar of the Community United States 1231 Posts	Posted 09/02/2007 6:09 pm I'm glad my screen gave me those colors. When I got this laptop in May, I upgraded the basic screen that Dell offers and got the Ultrasharp Truelife wide-screen. And to me it makes a huge difference. I seem to get a better color array then I do no the desktop with a basic LCD Report this Post to the Staff
ageka Pillar of the Community Belgium 2078 Posts	Posted 09/03/2007 11:20 am Well actually after days of reading I understand that every LCD screen as a native resolution ; so if you bougth the wrong screen you are done for Mine is an anusual 1140:900 I think called a 16 over 10 format The laptop is the best gleaming truebright and desk is a philips190wv matte After realising that left right movement and forwards backwards movement change the colors dramatically ( something a crt does not do) the philips 19" screen was perfect I have not bothered to calibrate the Toshiba 17" laptop screen with the program that is provided somewhere . I just told the software there are not two screens but only the desktop screen .I put a wirelelss Logitech mouse and keyboard on and am now debugging programs. One of my programs iphoto plus which I reinstalled in win98 mode closes down everytime I push the save as in the menu and also does not see scan sizes . Lucky for me it still goes full blue and full green when I request it Report this Post to the Staff
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