Good for JPGs? Is this the item I want?
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I would have have to say yes. I am using it for all my digital photos. Seems to work fine.
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Traci, I'm a photographer and I use it exactly for that. I usually put on it 11x16 heavy picture frames and canvas. Ypu are not going to regret it
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I use it to hold photos (typically 8x10) I guess you could use them for a single magazine as long as it's not much larger than 8x10. I'm not sure if the plastic bag is correct for any type of archival quality needed for collectable comics or magazines.
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Hi, I'm not sure what the old Kodak A drive disks were. If they look like and are constructed like standard 3.5" floppies, this drive should read them. Whether your jpeg pix will open or not I think will depend on your graphics program. Hope this helps. This is a nice little drive, and I've had good luck with it reading my old floppies---including many jpeg files.
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No, not good for photo's. Image quality is poor in regular mode. Average in better image quality mode. Also, scan time is slow. It's okay for home use but not in a commercial setting.
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I would get a glossier high grade paper for pictures ....this is "good" ...but not BEST, imo ...
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Yes it will hold these photos. Some older photos may be an odd size, so keep your scissors handy.
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It works fine for mounted slides, I helped my dad copy several thousand of them. A couple of things to be aware of...different mounting frames will fit differently into the slot, you may need to adjust different frames to display the most image. Of course, you can only do one slide at a time, so the process can be tedious. Consider getting an SD card to load into the scanner so you can store the images on it, leaving you free to display the unit on a tv...this will give you a good image to work with as well as allowing words in the pictures to be more visible thereby insuring you get correct orientation. Finally, get a can of compressed air so you can periodically blow dust out of the scanner...old slides tend to be dirty. Good luck
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You can store it as a jpeg file, if you want to change it to a tiff file, I would use another program.
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I have scanned several photos and they come out very well. I think the max resolution is 600DPI which is probably about as good as the quality of the photograph itself. The larger the photo the clearer the scan will be. I found the saving the pictures as a .pdf seem to give you a little better quality than a .jpg and also works well if you are using a MAC.
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I have never used it, but there is a menu choice in professional mode for either black and white or color negatives. I have used it to digitize slides as jpeg files and it worked fine.
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Hello, Asking this question could get you into trouble since file size is not a determination of your image quality. See below for the reasons but my recommendation would be a minimum 2 Megapixel image (The higher the resolution the better and more important) with a file size compressed from the original as little as you can 2Mpixel probably 1MB or larger. Open the image on your computer zoom it up and view it onscreen at about the 16*20 that the canvas will be. If you are happy with that, send the image. Lastly make sure your pixel ratio is 16X20 so you get what you expect when it is printed and the part you wanted is not cropped off. The smallest and largest files I have sent are a 1500 X 1949 pixel image (compressed to 570Kb) and a 3287 X 2188 pixel image (compressed to 4.03MB) Both look great however I can tell a difference. The 570kb file had too much compression on the jpeg. In raw terms, file size should equal (width in pixels) x (height in pixels) x 3 bytes per pixel. Lets take the case of a 3-Megapixel Image, 1900 pixels * 1600 pixels = 3.04 megapixels * 3 bytes = 9.12 megabytes uncompressed. This file is typically compressed and can be over 10:1 compression resulting in 900 kbytes and a picture which looses color chroma and has artifacts. So I should just use more than 9 megabytes right? Not really because a 90 megabyte image compressed to 9 megabytes will have the same chroma and artifact issue which you will not like hanging on the wall. Hope it helps. If you have read this far, my experience was with canvas champ which was awesome.
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I'd shoot in the highest format you can according to how much your card can handle, then crop down to the print size you want or down to 1080 for viewing on your TV. Realistically, though, if you're going to be taking a ton of photos a smaller size will help with hard drive storage in the long run.
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This printer will print "acceptable" photos on good quality photo paper. Color rendition is good for snapshots, but never for archival or media production photos. You are getting what you pay for. If it is high quality you need, you will need a much more expensive printer.
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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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This scanner will scan a color or black and white negative, and make you a digital .JPG (picture). You can then do whatever you want to with it. I have scanned negatives that I still have prints from, from the 1980's, and my prints from these scans are better than the originals from the 1980's. So yes it will scan them very well.
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It would work, however, I personally would not auto-feed the photos. I prefer a flat bed scanner for photos -- that way you don't risk them jamming, folding, or ripping.