Scanner Reminders
Paul Coones
Just a reminder, in my case, of all my scanners that I left powered
on, all the time, that the scanning lights go bad quickly, and
therefore becomes useless. So now, I just turn if off after it cools,
and store it until the next time I need it.
Paul
Glenna Rose
> I would say that if your scanner is set at a certain resolution, it
> will scan the same regardless of the area that is to be scanned. I
> would only say that the plastic cover over the photos are going to
> reduce the quality of the scan by some measure. Do a test and see if
> there is a difference between the two. Keep in mind that if you
> increase the resolution too much, that every little bit of dust is
> going to show up and you'll have to remove it later.
>
> Also, the more resolution, the bigger files it will produce. Check the
> file size of various tests first before doing too many. Remember too,
> that you can increase the size of a scanned photo with the scanner's
> preference settings.
> You can scan a 3.5 x 5 into a 5 x 7 quite easily, but almost doubles
> the file size!
I've left the jackets on the pages initially because of the time it
takes to scan so many. This allows me to get the photos in some sort
of order and then go back and scan them for the permanent copies, much
faster to flip through the digital files than to handle the albums.
It also keeps the photos attached to the pages until later when I
actually have purchased some archival glue. The photos were not put
into the albums in any particular order. My grandmother had boxes of
photos and put them in albums as she was given albums for gifts so
there will be photos from different decades on the same page, for
instance a 1920 photo on a page with 1930s and 1960s photos as well as
mixing black and white with color. Doing it as I have lets me keep
them as they were for reassembly later. It seems somehow more
respective to my grandmother to preserve the integrity of what she did
even if it isn't logical to me.
As for file size, disk space is cheap. Most of these photos will be
archived so I want the highest quality I can get. Thank you for
mentioning the difference in quality with a protective sheet left on;
it is something that could easily be overlooked.
,
Not sure how to turn it off as it doesn't start until I tell it to
through VueScan; it is USB powered so there is no on/off switch. Are
you saying I should disconnect it from the computer when I'm not using
the scanner?
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