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- From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
- Subject: Re: Digital Camera - anyone use this yet?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.034744.10532@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
- References: <atrn+l@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:47:44 GMT
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- jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth) writes:
- : In article <anderson.29.715963384@mayo.edu> anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I. Anderson) writes:
- : >
- : >Is there a better way than the digital camera?
- :
- :
- : I've heard that the fotoman doesn't take the sharpest of pictures, but it
- : is still fairly good. I've not seen it personally, but I understand that
- : it has a lower resolving power than their scanman portables. It will take
- : images that are slightly less sharp than those disposible cameras that
- : Fuji, Kodak, et al. make.
- :
- : Better ways:
- : 1) have person put face on flatbed scanner, and scan. -- NOTE: :^) --
- :
- : 2) instant camera and a scanner/ scanman.
- :
- :
- Using a camera and a scanner combination doesn't work that well either.
- My experience is that you need to adjust it quite a lot (lighting,
- maybe even image processing. Even the paper quality can affect the final
- result). This is compounded if you have multiple
- clerical types doing it - you have to rely on all of them doing it
- consistently well.
-
- jin meng
-