Re: scanning prints larger than ISO A4 size

From: Eric Neilsen <e.neilsen@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: RE: scanning prints larger than ISO A4 size
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:59:19 -0600

> If you try this route, make sure you have plenty of memory. I tried
> this approach on some quick photos cans and my laptop. Poor little
> laptop has plenty of process, but choked on the file size.

I realized that gimp has a pandra plugin for stitching image files.
So this can be done entirely on Linux platform, which is easier for
me. I'll report how it goes when I get to rescan some of my photos
again.

From: Alex Swain <fotoobscura@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: scanning prints larger than ISO A4 size
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:52:59 -0500

> If you're going to take photos of the image make absolutely sure
> you're shooting spot-on preferably with a copy stand or else you'll
> get trapezoidal/skew problems.

I thought we are all photographers with brain... no?

> The scanners with digital ICE are a little better.

I always thought that digital ICE is of no use to scan b&w negatives
and prints. Image is opaque to IR just like dusts are.

Profiling scanner is of no trouble to me. I do it once and save the
parameters into a file. (I use vuescan.)

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