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Hi everyone,
First, thanks for responding to my posts. It is very helpful to have advice from people who have experience collecting coins. I am interested in purchasing an HP all-in-one printer...model 6310. It has a flatbed scanner. Can some of you recommend a scanner that is very good for scanning coins? I'm not sure this will be good for that purpose. Thanks! Jennifer |
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"J" wrote in message oups.com... Hi everyone, First, thanks for responding to my posts. It is very helpful to have advice from people who have experience collecting coins. I am interested in purchasing an HP all-in-one printer...model 6310. It has a flatbed scanner. Can some of you recommend a scanner that is very good for scanning coins? I'm not sure this will be good for that purpose. I have an HP 7310 that I have successfully used. If you can get a.b.p.n., look at my postings of 2/07 for examples. James |
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"J" wrote in message oups.com... Hi everyone, First, thanks for responding to my posts. It is very helpful to have advice from people who have experience collecting coins. I am interested in purchasing an HP all-in-one printer...model 6310. It has a flatbed scanner. Can some of you recommend a scanner that is very good for scanning coins? I'm not sure this will be good for that purpose. Thanks! Jennifer I'm using an hp psc 2110xi for scanning my coins. Ill post one under the header "Just for Jen" in alt.binary.pictures.numismatic for you. B |
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? "J" ?????? ??? ??????
oups.com... Hi everyone, First, thanks for responding to my posts. It is very helpful to have advice from people who have experience collecting coins. I am interested in purchasing an HP all-in-one printer...model 6310. It has a flatbed scanner. Can some of you recommend a scanner that is very good for scanning coins? I'm not sure this will be good for that purpose. Hi there! First of all, scanners are not the best way to have pictures of your coins, especially when you are trying to scan a highly reflective proof coin... That said, I admit that am archiving all my coins using a...scanner;-) What can I say, it's easier and more convenient than taking a picture of them... So a digital camera and a proper photographic stand will give you better results... If you still prefer to scan your coins though, I say that today there are no "bad" scanners; if I was in you I'd prefer a stand alone scanner and not a combo solution but this is up to your needs so you be the judge... As for companies, I would pick up an Epson or a Cannon but again, this comes down to your personal taste. rgrds -- E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi puttane! F.d.A Coins, travels and mo http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/golanule/my_photos http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html Thanks! Jennifer |
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Ο "Brian O" έγραψε στο μήνυμα
... "gogu" wrote in message ... ? "J" ?????? ??? ?????? oups.com... Hi everyone, First, thanks for responding to my posts. It is very helpful to have advice from people who have experience collecting coins. I am interested in purchasing an HP all-in-one printer...model 6310. It has a flatbed scanner. Can some of you recommend a scanner that is very good for scanning coins? I'm not sure this will be good for that purpose. Hi there! First of all, scanners are not the best way to have pictures of your coins, especially when you are trying to scan a highly reflective proof coin... That said, I admit that am archiving all my coins using a...scanner;-) What can I say, it's easier and more convenient than taking a picture of them... So a digital camera and a proper photographic stand will give you better results... If you still prefer to scan your coins though, I say that today there are no "bad" scanners; if I was in you I'd prefer a stand alone scanner and not a combo solution but this is up to your needs so you be the judge... As for companies, I would pick up an Epson or a Cannon but again, this comes down to your personal taste. rgrds Having said all that, what would be a good camera set up? I have a digital photo camera, but its strictly for vacation type pictures. Believe it or not I am still on a P&S camera (a 5 MP Sony DSC P93) although I am a serious amateur photographer since about 30 years and own 4 film camera sets;-) I am still not satisfied with what various camera companies are offering and until Nikon comes out with a D80-like camera with an incorporated dust removal device, I'll have to wait... I say Nikon because I already have invested in 5 original (quite expensive...) Nikon lenses and I'd like to use them on the digital camera I am going to buy some time in the future... Exactly how much would a person have to spend to get a photo with the quality that a scanner could get?? I don't think you can do it for the same cost as you can get with a good scanner. Absolutely not! But bear in mind that a camera has also other uses except photographing your coins;-) The money you pay for a photo stand you are paying them once so I suppose it's not a big deal but again that depends of how one perceives that "no big deal"... IIRC there were here in the past a couple of threads debating the photo stand topic, so a search with Google will give you much more insight than I can. rgrds -- E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi puttane! F.d.A Coins, travels and mo http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/golanule/my_photos http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html B |
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"gogu" wrote in message ... ? "J" ?????? ??? ?????? oups.com... Hi everyone, First, thanks for responding to my posts. It is very helpful to have advice from people who have experience collecting coins. I am interested in purchasing an HP all-in-one printer...model 6310. It has a flatbed scanner. Can some of you recommend a scanner that is very good for scanning coins? I'm not sure this will be good for that purpose. Hi there! First of all, scanners are not the best way to have pictures of your coins, especially when you are trying to scan a highly reflective proof coin... That said, I admit that am archiving all my coins using a...scanner;-) What can I say, it's easier and more convenient than taking a picture of them... So a digital camera and a proper photographic stand will give you better results... If you still prefer to scan your coins though, I say that today there are no "bad" scanners; if I was in you I'd prefer a stand alone scanner and not a combo solution but this is up to your needs so you be the judge... As for companies, I would pick up an Epson or a Cannon but again, this comes down to your personal taste. rgrds Having said all that, what would be a good camera set up? I have a digital photo camera, but its strictly for vacation type pictures. Exactly how much would a person have to spend to get a photo with the quality that a scanner could get?? I don't think you can do it for the same cost as you can get with a good scanner. B |
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On Apr 26, 10:40 am, J wrote:
Hi everyone, First, thanks for responding to my posts. It is very helpful to have advice from people who have experience collecting coins. I am interested in purchasing an HP all-in-one printer...model 6310. It has a flatbed scanner. Can some of you recommend a scanner that is very good for scanning coins? I'm not sure this will be good for that purpose. Thanks! Jennifer I don't scan coins (yet), but based on recommendations from a previous RCC thread, I got a Microtek ScanMaker S400 - good price and it does a nice job on slides and negatives ... |
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On Apr 26, 1:44?pm, "gogu" wrote:
If you still prefer to scan your coins though, I say that today there are no "bad" scanners; if I was in you I'd prefer a stand alone scanner and not a combo solution but this is up to your needs so you be the judge... As for companies, I would pick up an Epson or a Cannon but again, this comes down to your personal taste. Gogu, Gogu, Gogu....shame on you ;-) As you are well aware there are "bad" scanners if your goal is to scan coins....scanners with CIS sensors. As you know CIS sensors lack the depth of field provided by scanners with CCD sensors. Scanners with CIS sensors are fine for scanning flat objects such as a sheet of paper, but for scanning an object with any depth, a scanner with a CCD sensor would be the scanner of choice. Most "all-in-one" printer/scanners and slimline scanners use CIS sensors. According to the PDF version of HP's full specifications for the HP 6310 mentioned by the original poster, the 6310 uses the CIS sensor and would therefore not be the best choice for scanning coins. |
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"J" wrote in message oups.com... Hi everyone, First, thanks for responding to my posts. It is very helpful to have advice from people who have experience collecting coins. I am interested in purchasing an HP all-in-one printer...model 6310. It has a flatbed scanner. Can some of you recommend a scanner that is very good for scanning coins? I'm not sure this will be good for that purpose. Thanks! Jennifer I occasionally use my older HP6300C to scan some of my coins. The quality is great-- often too great. With a higher dpi setting, every dust speck and microscopic nick or spot is emphasized, making what I consider an attractive coin look horrible. With the flatbed scanner, you're stuck with the traveling light source which essentially eliminates shadows, even if you tilt the coin slightly. My digital camera seems to capture the most flattering images of my coins, but its resolution is limited due to a so-so macro capability. If you just want to scan coins for inventory purposes, most popular scanner models would probably do just fine. Bruce |
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? "Phil DeMayo" ?????? ??? ??????
oups.com... On Apr 26, 1:44?pm, "gogu" wrote: If you still prefer to scan your coins though, I say that today there are no "bad" scanners; if I was in you I'd prefer a stand alone scanner and not a combo solution but this is up to your needs so you be the judge... As for companies, I would pick up an Epson or a Cannon but again, this comes down to your personal taste. Gogu, Gogu, Gogu....shame on you ;-) I admit my omission:-) As you are well aware there are "bad" scanners if your goal is to scan coins....scanners with CIS sensors. Aaargh, I don't even bother to think at them as "scanners" that's why I forgot them:-) But I stand corrected, those scanners have very swallow scanning "depth", so what you scan must be practically "attached" to the glass of the scanner (paper, photos, etc), anyything away of it, even a couple of millimeters will probably show blurred. As you know CIS sensors lack the depth of field provided by scanners with CCD sensors. Scanners with CIS sensors are fine for scanning flat objects such as a sheet of paper, but for scanning an object with any depth, a scanner with a CCD sensor would be the scanner of choice. 100% true! Most "all-in-one" printer/scanners and slimline scanners use CIS sensors. According to the PDF version of HP's full specifications for the HP 6310 mentioned by the original poster, the 6310 uses the CIS sensor and would therefore not be the best choice for scanning coins. Then he/she should avoid it and look for a CCD scanner. Again, I am sorry that I forgot those CIS scanners but I totally ignore them thus my omission! Thanks for correcting my posting Phil! -- E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi puttane! F.d.A Coins, travels and mo http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/golanule/my_photos http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html |
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