you can scan anything with this scanner. you can use photomerge in photoshop to stitch pieces of things together. if you need a flat plane for some reason, cut a 1/8" piece of plexiglass or glass to 8.5x11 roughly and place it over the scanner's glass. then I just tape up the sides to give a smooth edge. if you need help, feel free to e-mail me offlist...
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <charl...@visi.com> 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 >> >> -- >> Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com >> Minneapolis, MN >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >> http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - > Peter Galassi > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
