storing 6 rubbermaid tubs of photo albums?
I am going fulltime and have nowhere to keep them or a place to leave them. Considering using my digital camera and taking a picture of each picture. That way all the pics would be on a small SCANDI...
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mikeleblanc413 wrote:Actually his preference is a copy stand.. Read up.
Quality is relative! I'm with Bumby Road! Scanned images are far superior to copies from a camera. Anyone who says otherwise is inexperienced or has clouded information! A lot of technical issues are at play and I'm not going to spend the time explaining! I will say: they are your photos! The decision is yours!
When I'm either scanning or copying a picture that 50+ years old, the last thing I care about is dynamic range either out of a scanner or a camera because there is an excellent chance it's not in the original. The original likely came out of a stack of pix with the emulsion scratched (even a little) surface dirt, or both, processed at the local drugstore, and the picture has degraded over time anyway. Negs aren't allot better unless you have something like Digital Ice to do background restoration. Short of a real photo scanner (not the run of the mill home jobs from Staples), and some good restoration software, I'll put my 12+MP copy stand camera up against the scanner market any day. Better lens, far higher resolution better gamma and knee control (especially RAW), and I don't have to worry about sloppy scanner transport rails to skew the image. Even an old picture deserves a chance up against lo-rez scanners.
