[Techtalk] getting quality photo scans

[Carla Schroder]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 11:14, Carol Williams wrote:
> Carla,
>
> I think your issue may be your scanner.  The Epson CX 4800 only scans at
> 600dpi at 48bit (24 bit compressed) versus 1600 - 4800 dpi at 48bit for a
> photo scanner.  You're not going to get "perfect" photos with a scanner but
> you can get pretty decent results with an acutal photo scanner.  I use the
> Epson 4490 with SANE and GIMP. I get pretty good results, for older photos
> I do have to fuss around with the color settings.
>
> Carol

That's interesting, because even when I run a scan at the highest resolution, 
which is supposedly 1200x2400, it takes longer and it produces a much larger 
file. But to my eye it looks exactly the same as lower-res images. I think I 
need to find some different scanners to test. The loss of sharpness bothers 
me the most. The scans look OK by themselves, but a comparison with the 
original shows a lot of lost details.

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