I want to use this to take clear images of stamps. Scanning and camera photos are not great. Will this work?
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It is pretty good. Not crystal clear, but pretty good. And you can get the whole stamp in a photo or zoom in until the stamp colors are just dots.
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Yes, it takes pretty good images of stamps, I just tried it on a current stamp from the post office. As far as saving a digital copy, I've been using the $20 computer screen capture program from www.faststone.org "FastStone Capture 8.0" that works very well to capture anything on your PC monitor, and save it to a file. This venue doesn't allow me to include a sample image from the digital microscope though. I've got a Canon SX20IS that has extreme close up capabilities. This microscope does a much better job at it. The microscope also has a "Ring" of LED's that surround the lense for even illumination of your target.
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Yes, it takes pretty good images of stamps, I just tried it on a current stamp from the post office. As far as saving a digital copy, I've been using the $20 computer screen capture program from www.faststone.org "FastStone Capture 8.0" that works very well to capture anything on your PC monitor, and save it to a file.This venue doesn't allow me to include a sample image from the digital microscope though.I've got a Canon SX20IS that has extreme close up capabilities. This microscope does a much better job at it. The microscope also has a "Ring" of LED's that surround the lense for even illumination of your target. Yes, it takes pretty good images of stamps, I just tried it on a current stamp from the post office. As far as saving a digital copy, I've been using the $20 computer screen capture program from www.faststone.org "FastStone Capture 8.0" that works very well to capture anything on your PC monitor, and save it to a file.This venue doesn't allow me to include a sample image from the digital microscope though.I've got a Canon SX20IS that has extreme close up capabilities. This microscope does a much better job at it. The microscope also has a "Ring"... » Read More Yes, it takes pretty good images of stamps, I just tried it on a current stamp from the post office. As far as saving a digital copy, I've been using the $20 computer screen capture program from www.faststone.org "FastStone Capture 8.0" that works very well to capture anything on your PC monitor, and save it to a file.This venue doesn't allow me to include a sample image from the digital microscope though.I've got a Canon SX20IS that has extreme close up capabilities. This microscope does a much better job at it. The microscope also has a "Ring" of LED's that surround the lense for even illumination of your target. « Show Less
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As long as they are not shiny stamps. The integrates lights cause serious reflection on smooth plastic.
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Yes it will probably work nicely for you but remember the resolution isn't quite as high as a digital camera. Digital cameras have much higher resolution however their field of view is probably in adequate for what you needed to do. This unit is very good at taking good resolution pictures of small things. And it's not very expensive.
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It does a fine job. I have scanned several photos and have been very happy with results. You can set the quality to various levels to meet your demands.
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It scans photographs pretty well. I don't think it's quite as good as my Epson v500, but it's "good enough" unless you're doing archival work and want the absolute best result you can get. The software does little to no post-processing, and your only choice of output for photographs is JPG (which is always a "lossy" format, as opposed to TIF or other "lossless" format). I don't know if it's the particular JPG compression or the scanner itself, but there is a [very] slight "tiling" effect to the scanned photographs. I suppose overall, I would give it a 7.5/10 for photos. Additionally, since it is a sheetfed scanner, if there is any dust on the scanner "lens", you will end up with a line, as opposed to the V500, so you need to keep that clean. On the plus side, you can scan multiple photos (of approximately the same size) automatically from the document feeder tray, and you can scan the back of the photos at the same time to keep context (many people write notes on the back of photos, which takes twice as much time to scan if you are using a photo scanner). I will upload an example of this scanner vs my V500 in the "customer images" and you can judge for yourself. (edit: never mind...Amazon won't allow me to add customer images for this product) The image is at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pg9fxsfvvdmutlj/S1300i_vs_V500_comparison.png
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look into stamps.com software, There is a lot of features in this software. Hope that helps, make sure you have the correct drivers also.
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Yes. A bit difficult with scanning. I have a Mac and I use IPhoto. Not compatible I guess.
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I haven't used it for photos or art. I'm sure it can scan photos and art fine, but I'm not sure about the quality.It works amazing for documents, which is what I use it for. I'm sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
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I don't think so. If the image is 1.75 " it is something other than 35mm. I think it will only scan the image within the border of a standard 35mm slide. Keep checking with other customers. I only used my scanner for 35mm.
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Absolutely. My only problem with the scanner was that it said that it could scan negatives but failed to say only 35 mm negatives. It scans photos great and I'm happy with the results.
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I've used it for photo's and haven't had any problems. I scan everything in at 300 dpi, and it's pretty speedy. I have not tried doing 150 dpi though. It does auto crop and fix any skewing or rotation that may have happened too.
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I really don't know. I know you can't use it for a camera but it might work on a scanner since nothing is moving like it would on a camera. Go to a Best Buy store and as the Geek Squad. I just dealt with them two weeks ago and I'm very satisfied with how they work. At least in the Kankakee/Bourbonnais store.
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I scanned a bunch of old family photos from the 40s-60s, and it did fine, it pulled them straight through using the guides. They were of different sizes so I sorted as best I could and batch scanned the groups. Somewhat difficult to navigate the setting menus to obtain the highest resolution (1200x1200), in color, and the correct size. Much faster and easier than a flat scanner.
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I bought the lens to take detail pictures of postage stamps/coins (I collect). Does the job, have not tried it on insects or any thing smaller.
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It has worked very well for me! It can scan at a quality of 600dpi for color or gray & 1200dpi for black and white. It depends on how sharp you need the pictures to be. Hope this helps
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While you could scan that many photos with this, it would take forever, since it's just a flatbed scanner. I would recommend a scanner with a feed tray for a task like that. I've scanned photos with it, and while the quality is good, it is NOT fast.
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Didn't try that application, but I can not imagine that would work well, the item is not easy to get a simple image to scan correctly. I would not recommend it for that purpose.
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Yes, it can scan pictures, but it offers little control on the output, and saves the file in jpg. In other words, it is OK for the occasional picture but will not be sufficient for someone who wants to be able to control the quality of the scan or wants photography-level images.
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I have the same question! I am looking for something to scan the old black and white negatives- larger ones than 35mm. Have you found a scanner that will do that, mt gal? If you do, can you let me know at dlamp3300@aol.com ? Thanks