Frank Gossett wrote:
Several years ago I bought an Epson V600 for copying old photographs. It's slow!!
I watched a video, produced by B&H, with a photographer who has a setup using a camera stand, 22+ mp Camera, side lights, and Macro lens. its much faster, but the setup is pretty involved.
If you copy old photos, what is your most successful method?
For This Test: Epson ET 4550 Printer Copy, Scan (flatbed ) set at 200, 300, 400 for X & Y resolution scans.
I scanned 3 1968 B&W curled-up 3-1/2 X 5 pics at one time.
Pics were scanned and then processed by Topaz Photo AI (Latest Rev) at default settings
Then I used PhotoScape X to crop the pics.
In my opinion:
Scanning at 200 X & Y the pic was close to the original but not quite as good, even when processed by Topaz Photo AI (Latest).
At 300 X & Y, The grouping resulted in equal to, or marginally better than the original pics after being run through Topaz Photo AI (Latest) at default settings that yielded a 2.2MB file for the three and a 589KB file per single pic.
At 400 X & Y, The grouping resulted in slightly better than the original pics after being run through Topaz Photo AI (Latest) at default settings which yielded a 4.4MB file for the three and a 1.1MB file per single pic.
Notes:
All scans for three pics were <1 minute long, so my future default setting will be 400 X & Y.
The long pole in the tent is the cropping of the three pics on one file.
All scans are automatically upsized by Topaz Photo AI after "facial recovery" and sharpening.
All comparisons were made side by side at 100%. Yes, this is pretty OCD.
No, I didn't try color, but I hope this helps.
Smile,
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