OT: Scanning Question

[irv]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

The board software will automatically resize whatever image you upload, once you get below the file size threshold where it will actually accept the image. Keep in mind that the resolutions you might need to print a nice picture are WAAAAYY more than are needed for display on most monitors. I would say for most posts, unless you are zooming in on a particular flaw or corner, 100-200 dpi will be plenty, and the board software may even downsize that image when you upload.

If you are hosting the image separately and simply linking to it in your post (as with Photobucket or similar image-hosting sites), you can have more control over the size that the image displays in your post, but even then a 300 dpi image will be too large for many screens to display without having to side-scroll to see the whole image (a pet peeve of mine).

In most cases, you would be best to scan at whatever size you want to use for archiving your card images, and then resizing/resaving a copy of the image for uploading with your board posts.

Thanks for the info, Lance.

After I was told about the lid up/lights off trick, I just go with the factory settings now for most of my scans. I know it is outdated, as is my monitor, but it still gets the job, and imo, they don't look too bad.

[Ronnie73]

I'm also a Canon 9000F user and have no plans to upgrade unless there's something better under $1000 and I don't believe there is.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Ronnie73

I'm also a Canon 9000F user and have no plans to upgrade unless there's something better under $1000 and I don't believe there is.

Based on what you said, I was expecting them to be a lot more money?
Unless this isn't the one you are talking about?
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/.../10240253.aspx

[Ronnie73]

That's the one I use. You can get them even cheaper on ebay.

Originally Posted by irv

Based on what you said, I was expecting them to be a lot more money?
Unless this isn't the one you are talking about?
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/.../10240253.aspx

[JollyElm]

Anyone know what scanner a place like COMC uses? They seemingly use a feed scanner where they effortlessly feed it a diet of 9 pocket pages (which are pretty thick) with nary a problem. If there was a pretty cheap version of that type of scanner (with a CCD element) out there, that would be great.