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| 2nd Mar 2013, 1:51 PM | #1 REPORT | |
 | 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 |
| 2nd Mar 2013, 9:26 PM | #2 REPORT | |
 | Bodston SUBS Member since May 2012 3157 Points Moderator | I bought a Mustek 600 A3 flatbed. It came rebadged as a 'T1 scanning specialist' but for £149 delivered I'm not complaining. I've got it perched on a chair, as it is is too long to fit next to the computer.. and anyway that place is taken with my new TDK USB record deck. Sweet. |
| 14th Mar 2013, 9:59 PM | #3 REPORT | |
 | Juke Jules SUBS Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow Member since Jan 2011 4145 Points Moderator | That looks like a contender for scanning any 12+ inch stuff Mark, and one big 'plus' must be the near-instantaneous speed of taking an image compared to a flatbed scanner You mention the black line; I presume you mean like on the Shy sleeve PT 40230 This is presumably an issue for glossy prints, like most LP covers, but it does not show on your label images, if you are using the same device for labels I wondered if we might see some 'barrel' distortion on rectangular artwork, but I do not see any on your scans I recognise the user interface as working in the same way as MicroCapture which controls a USB microscope I use for rather smaller subjects! Edited by Juke Jules on 23rd Aug 2013, 12:04 AM |
| 17th Mar 2013, 11:36 AM | #4 REPORT | |
| mark from eire Member since Apr 2011 546 Points | Hi Juke, The black line that I am talking about is the shadow from the free standing scanner itself, where the arm holding the camera is in center with the 12"! You can see it better on this single which I am going to redo with other images that I have already put up here when I have finished scanning in all of 12" singles. I like this free standing scanner simply because it's just as easy using it as it is using a camera to take pictures of the 12" covers. I use my flatbed scanner to do the labels because I don't think that I will get the same detail work from the free standing scanner. Edited by moderator on 23rd Aug 2013, 12:29 AM |
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