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Hello everyone!
Recently I have decided to digitize my entire world coin collection, consisting of about 3500 different types. I'm running everything through my 400dpi scanner and arranging all the photos by country, denomination, and date. Right now, after much work, I have 1,057 images processed, ranging in size from 100KB (Turkey, 1 kurus, 1971) to 1.2MB (Panama, 10 balboas, 1978). Of course, I want to show all this off to the world. Does anyone know of a good website that can handle and display a very long photo album like this?
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I can't call myself an expert but I think you want Flickr.
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Flickr can handle large images, and large photostreams. I only have a few hundred photos there, but I do have one that measures 11096x2979 (8.7MB JPEG), so Flickr can definitely handle large images.
Note: I have only a single coin photo there -- I'm reluctant to reveal the whole collection in one easy-to-find place (even though you'd have to rob two different banks to steal the whole collection).
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Bedrock of the Community
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OMNICOIN is an excellent site.
One member in particular, has made very effective use of this site to the benefit of all.
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Flickr can handle large images, and large photostreams. I only have a few hundred photos there, but I do have one that measures 11096x2979 (8.7MB JPEG), so Flickr can definitely handle large images.
I lurk a couple of photography forums, and know pro shooters who have thousands of high-res images in their Flickr. Omnicoin is also good, dedicated to numismatics, but if I recall I deprecated them because their image size capacity was too small for my usual work. I may be wrong; check them out. |
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Here's an update: - I haven't signed up for flickr because it's one of those clingy websites that wants a real name and a valid mobile phone number. I still have a flip-phone so psychologically I don't think I'm ready to become this committed to any website. - Collectivecoin seems to be doing some heavy server maintenance. I've gotten a few different error messages. - Omnicoin is great, but it wants one image for each side of the coin. Meanwhile, I've spent some hours pasting together all my photos so that both sides of the coin are shown in one image - whoops. However, I have already started to use its sister site, Banknote Bank, so thank you! Here's my collection (of course I haven't even come close to uploading all my photos): http://banknotebank.com/collection/...=0&country=0 |
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Posted 04/06/2015 11:20 pm
