Re: Model Railroader Magazines 1936-1964
- From: Wolf Kirchmeir <wolfkir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 09:36:13 -0400
Puckdropper wrote:
David Nebenzahl <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:483e1e90$0$4970
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Small value, indeed. Seems every time I've gone to a club or a hobby shop that's getting rid of its boxes and boxes of old model railroad mags, they go for next to nothing, and usually end up getting tossed unsold. Pity, for the reasons you gave.
If you have the space, keep 'em.
Hard drive space is fairly cheap nowadays, so converting them to electronic form may not be a bad idea. [...]
I'd advise against that. Buy a good flatbed scanner, they are available for around $100-150, and you will have lot more use for it that for scanning old MRs. Pick one with at least 2400dpi _optical_ resolution. If the specs on the box highlight "up to x000dpi", avoid that machine - it will probably have low optical resolution and will use software to to fake the higher resolution. This will result in muddy scans. Current flatbeds are more than adequate to scan negatives and slides.
When scanning magazines etc, set the scanning software to "descreen", so that there won't be weird artifacts in the scanned halftones (pictures).
HTH
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wolf k.
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