Re: scanning prints larger than ISO A4 size

just trying to help..

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Cheers,
Alex Swain (fo)
Burlington, VT
http://www.zoom.sh
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:15:54 -0500 (EST), Ryuji Suzuki <rs@agx.st> wrote:
> 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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> Ryuji Suzuki
> "Well, believing is all right, just don't let the wrong people know
> what it's all about." (Bob Dylan, Need a Woman, 1982)
>