Scanner Opinions?

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Why lid up? Please educate me I'm a scanning putz. Thanks.

I wound up with the Epson and it is light years ahead of what I had.

Matt,

With the lid up, you're going to get more ambient light, and it helps with the scan quality of certain kinds of cards, especially in my experience, with graded cards. Obviously it won't matter as much with SGC graded cards, as they have a black background, but with PSA or Beckett graded cards, it makes the area around the card black, and the case condition (ie any potential frosting from attempted case-cracks) pops out more.

[T206Collector]

I use Google's free image software Picassa for managing my scans. Not only does it provide a great web-hoster for sharing scans here and elsewhere, but it allows me to adjust the exposure to get the card to look just right.

I took Fred's Paige scan above and then ran it through Picassa, as follows: