| mark from eire
Member since Apr 2011 546 Points | I got myself a free standing scanner made by Mustek and for the last week or so I have been learning how to use it! I will never be as good as a flatbed scanner, but for me it will do!!
First of all here is the demo video they made for it
It will not capture the full album cover unless you place something high enough under it to be able to get a picture of a cover, until yesterday I was using three video tapes!
I also made a stand for it, so it could be beside the desk where my computer is and you have to do a bit of editing with the images you get from it!!
Drawbacks:
This is the only camera that I know that when you use it to take pictures it rotates them, so make sure you give yourself the right amount for surface space on the mat that you are taken the picture so the rotation part doesn’t take away any part of the picture cover you are taking.
The colour will always be off, again you will have to use your picture program to get the right colours, so far I have not done this because I want to learn as much as I can and then I will redo the pictures again.
Within in the picture itself you will always see a black line from where the camera is over the cover.
Tips:
Have nothing near the area you are taken the picture because the camera will try to fit that into the picture and it will make the picture cover smaller than what you want. I use four corners that I cut from paper to frame the cover itself.
I always have a white background when I am taken a picture of a picture disc or a colour vinyl 12”
I am still trying to figure out a few others thing with it at the moment and if I come up with anything else I will let you know!
Mark
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