Anyway, my second scanner, which I used from 2010-12, was not very good. It had problems with colors, and then the glass delaminated and I basically had to recreate each scan in PhotoScape if I was able to use them at all.
On the topic of colors...
I've gone back and forth on saving the old scans or just outright rescanning them, but I've decided that I'm going to save as many of the originals as I can. It's a slow process, it would actually be faster if I just rescanned them. But that would be losing some of my history. I don't want to do that if possible. I will if I have to, of course. On the same scan as I pulled this one from, there was a rescan of a card where part of it was cut off on the original, and it was so badly crooked that I would have lost a significant part of it to rotate it. So it got rescanned while the original got deleted.
I may have to end up rescanning most of the non-sports cards, though. Most of them were done with scanner #2. Time will tell.
NASCAR season starts today! I can't wait. I went through a few year period where I didn't enjoy the sport very much. That changed last year, which is unexplainable because NASCAR's current rules stink, and one of my least favorite drivers won the championship. But I still enjoyed it. And I've been really looking forward to the new season starting, and finally, today, it is!
Bring on NASCAR! I’ve lost interest the past few years, but I’ll likely at least watch the Daytona 500.
ReplyDeleteI will watch it every week for sure.
DeleteWow - amazing how much detail was lost from that scanner 2. Color values were WAY off.
ReplyDeleteYeah...I'm going to have to rescan just about everything from scanner 2.
DeleteNice upgrade. I recently picked up an Epson V19 and love it. I then started using VueScan software and the pictures started to come out even better.
ReplyDeleteI'm using a V600...best quality scans I've ever gotten.
DeleteI looked at the V600. Almost pulled the trigger, but ended up buying the cheaper one.
DeleteAt first I couldn't tell the difference between the two two scans... then I saw the gray 0's an 1's in the background and noticed the difference. If and when I ever have to rescan all of my cards... I'll probably just quit blogging (since that's the primary reason I take the time to scan cards).
ReplyDeleteTake a look at the grass, too. It looks almost black on the original scan!
DeleteOh yeah. That's a big difference.
DeleteI've changed my mind. I am going to rescan them. Since I wrote this post on Friday I've found more and more where the color is off. And my new scanner can actually pick up the foil, usually.
ReplyDeleteWith one exception. I'm going to reuse the original scans for the mirror foil cards if I can. The original scanner did a better job with them then the current scanner does. But if I have to, I will rescan them as well. I hope not, because I don't enjoy doing them at all.