Scans/Photos of your Cards
 

My wife and I have been working on our website to display our collection, but I'm failing at clean/clear/focused pictures of our cards. I've been fighting our home scanner, my work scanner, and attempted taking pictures. The cards we are having to most difficult time with are graded ones. SGC is worse that PSA.

For those pre-war collectors out there with sites displaying your cards and the auction house guys, what is the best way to get the pictures you need?

Thanks in advance.


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I went thru this a couple years ago, I got this response from Jim VB:

"Your scanner uses CIS technology. This has some advantages in compactness, so many all-in-ones use it, but it's not the best with thick articles (like slabbed cards.). For that, you'd prefer CCD technology. Those focus on the card, not the slab itself."

Your scanner is focusing on the slab, not the card inside the slab. Use a CCD scanner and your problems will go away.

The Canon Canoscan series seems to get a lot of love, especially for graded cards ...

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=174563

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=163471

Rob
:)

Steve is Right on the Money!
I use a Canon 9000F... For about $149.99(Purchased it about 2 years ago)
It does it All!
Even Makes Photos from Negatives, Very Cool indeed.

Check it Out...

Thanks for the responses. I'm going to look into picking up one of these scanners on eBay.


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Photos from negatives!?!? You just blew my mind.

I am using a CanoScan 8400F, which has the CCD scanning element you want. The technology is ten years old, and it uses a cold cathode fluorescent lamp instead of the led lighting source most newer scanners use. But the scans are great.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img20/4630/0ma6.png

You can pick up one of these on Ebay for about $50. I'll keep using it until I get a Canoscan 9000F mk II.

Scanner
 

Canon 9000F Mark II

I was using a cannon for some time and it did a nice job.

I went to the Epson V30 and it has outperformed the Cannon I had.

Not as Great on the modern glittery foil cards, but it does a fantastic job on the slabs.

There is a bit more expensive Epson that features the ability to scan negatives, as someone already spoke of, but that's a feature I will never personally use so I opted for the less expensive Epson V30. I think I gave $80 for it online a couple years ago. I think most likely it can be found in the $50-60 range.

John


http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...achCOWBOYS.jpghttp://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...PSA9MINT-1.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...4/55thorpe.jpghttp://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...74Staubach.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...ps6ec2ef5f.jpghttp://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...psf50c4602.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...pse816421b.jpghttp://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...pburnSGC84.jpg

It seems like all of the scans shown are really nice. I use a lowly Canon 5600F...works fine...


http://luckeycards.com/pt205cobby80sgc.jpg

I also have a 5600F---the CCD scan element is a MUST for scanning anything w/ more thickness than a flat paper item.

I love my canoscan 5600. It really picks up the backs of SGC cases well.