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| I have a horrible time taking good pics of my comics. I end up with glare or reflections or shadows. So I saw this thing called a light box. And I am wondering if anyone has used one of these before, and if so how were the pictures? Thanks! |
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| I’ve been wondering the same thing. | ||
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 The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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| First time I've seen or heard of such a thing. I notice the presentation of others photos when they sell stuff. Since I take lousy photos, it might be worth investing in when selling higher dollar books. | ||
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| https://theflashery.com/products/xl-flashery-studio-lightbox?fbclid=IwAR2UgUhnUUKzpyLC2LP2WDnwojE4BHj4VvurWX8ZftUCxO3hVePphCb1yQc This is the one I saw. Seems expensive, but if it works well... might be worth it? |
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@PhantomEwan you could just make your own. Get a cardboard box, or buy a linen dirty cloths holder, get a black velvet or whatever color background drop you want from the craft section at Walmart. Buy some cheap LED lights, and you're done. Or just use the flash off your phone's camera. |
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| Not great at crafts, but that doesn’t sound too hard, and definitely cheaper. Thanks for the how to! | ||
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| I use a scanner, works really well on raw books, not so much the graded ones. To remedy that it scan books before sending them to get graded. | ||
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| I helped my wife make one for her food photography. I'm not crafty at all and it wasn't hard. I haven't tried it for comics though. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by starlord Are you using a relatively new, consumer scanner? There are two main types of flatbed scanning technologies, CIS and CCD. Both have their merits. CIS scanners are newer and cheaper. They’re great for scanning documents that can be pressed right up to the scanner glass, like a raw book. However they don’t really handle objects further away from the glass, like a slabbed book. CCD technology is older and more expensive but has greater depth of field so it is great for scanning slabs. Since it’s more expensive it’s mostly used in higher end or professional scanners but older scanners using this technology can still be found. This book was scanned with a CIS scanner:  And here is the same book scanned with a CCD scanner, all other settings were about the same:  |
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| @dielinfinite - I hopefully don't derail this thread, but most of the scans I get using my HP Scanjet 8300 have glare from the plastic case (and I do remove the slab from the bag first). How do you reduce of eliminate that glare, Jon? Is there a clear material that can be placed on the scanner first? Any ideas anyone? Too much glare/reflection example:  |
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@esaravo hmm, I get those kinds of reflections sometimes, especially around the label but rarely that bad I haven’t really tried investigating the issue though. I wonder if it might be outside light leaking in. It might be worth trying to see if you get different results scanning in a dark room or if you put like a heavy blanket over the scanner to reduce outside light |
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| @PhantomEwan, I apologize as well for my following question but it seems as if everything is photography related. Do you guys that scan books have a scanner that hinges for graded books? We just got a printer here with a scanner on it I’ve been looking at messing with. I don’t really see how I could get scans of graded books. As you can tell I know didley about tech and this is probably a dumb question. | ||
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| @HeinzDad I imagine most of us that scan are books are using flatbed scanners designed to scan A4 sized sheets. @esaravo Mentioned he uses an HP Scanjet 8300 and I use an 8200. Both are older CCD scanners (see my post above) that have a bed large enough to fit a slab. Your all-in-one unit may only be designed for standard 8 1/2 x 11 sheets. One thing that might be worth exploring is your local library. At least here, they all have large, office-sized Xerox machines for printing which includes a large flatbed scanner, that you can use for free (after purchasing a copy card for $1) to scan to a USB drive. Unfortunately my local library system bought new machines with CIS scanning technology so I had to find a different solution and bought my flatbed scanner |
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| Yeah man, I figured. It’s more of just a wireless printer that happens to have the scanner. I don’t see why I couldn’t try a raw book. Thank you. | ||
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| I was just thinking about this issue yesterday.... I am going to try the DIY box and go from there. The other issue is file size--my phone saves it at 11 M per comic photo (too big for hertiage auction submissions I then resize on a computer to .25 M per photo. So even with a great photo M size consideration for uploading may be an issue. | ||
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| No worries to anyone worried about hijacking the thread. I am only trying to find a way to get better pictures of my collection. Wherever the discussion goes, and however many people can benefit from it the better! I sincerely appreciate everyone who is willing to help me et al. | ||
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The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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| @maynard23692 The phone allows you to select lower resolution photos. By default, it is highest setting. That might save you hassle of transferring photos back and forth. Edit This is my options on an old samsung s8 plus phone  |
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| Thanks that would save a lot of time. | ||
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