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Antique and vintage Japanese photographs

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1Myriades
Mag 21, 2011, 8:22 am

Hello everybody,

I own a few old Japanese photographs. Would you be interested in seing them? Shall I post some of these here - or maybe in the group pictures?

2mene
Mag 22, 2011, 6:20 am

What kind of photographs are they? I'd be interested in seeing them :)

3Myriades
Mag 26, 2011, 3:59 pm

Hello, mene.
Here are a few examples :





4Yamanekotei
Giu 1, 2011, 2:39 am

Ugh, I feel old now that you said antique and vintage photos...my Kindergarten pics look just like the second photo, only they are not monochrome.

5dcozy
Giu 1, 2011, 8:02 am

These are wonderful. Please post more.

6marietherese
Giu 9, 2011, 1:49 am

These are lovely, Myriades! I would love to see more of your collection, please.

7susieimage
Giu 9, 2011, 1:53 am

These postcards and photographs are great. Where did you get them?

8susieimage
Giu 9, 2011, 5:42 pm

I think I have a few old Japanese postcards too. How did you photo or scan them so well. I have a digital camera and on Digital Macro my camera is supposed to trim the edges but it doesn't. I am now also taking pictures of books to put on Library Thing and I want to trim the edges also. How can I do that?

9mene
Giu 10, 2011, 8:46 am

I use a normal scanner (like this one: http://www.ictloket.nl/wp-content/uploads/images/Scanner1.JPG) to scan book covers and photos and stuff. Taking photos of the book covers with a normal camera gives less good results. You can get second-hand scanners for less than 20 euros here in the Netherlands (I got mine for 15 euros).

10susieimage
Giu 14, 2011, 11:53 pm

I would love to have a scanner since I want to put book covers I can't find on Google Image on Librarything. How much is 15-20 euros in US dollars? Also what else do you use the scanner for?

11mene
Giu 15, 2011, 12:06 pm

Here is a currency convertor: http://www.xe.com/ucc/
Currently, 15 - 20 euros is 21.3313 - 28.4417 USD.

I use my scanner for scanning the following
-book covers
-drawings and painting
-newspaper clippings I want to show to someone else I won't be meeting anytime soon (I can just email the scan then)
-important documents
-"copying" documents (instead of going to a copyshop, I scan the document and print it on my own printer)

12susieimage
Giu 16, 2011, 12:50 am

Thanks, meme, for the information. I went to look at scanners today and they were about $50-$80. When something is scanned does it automatically size it and cut off the white edges or do you have to use something like Photoshop to size it?

13mene
Modificato: Giu 16, 2011, 4:32 am

When you scan something, you first click the "Preview" button. Then it makes a quick scan of the entire surface.
Then you can select the area which you want to be scanned (rectangular selections only) and then you click "scan". Then you get the real scan in a separate file. Your scanner program allows you to save it in different formats, but saving it as a JPG is most useful.
You can also set DPI for the scanning. The smaller the DPI, the smaller your image will be.
I think 100 or 150 DPI is enough when you only want to show the image on the computer.
If you also want to print the image, it should be 300 DPI (and 600 DPI if you're going to send it to a publisher to be printed in books).

The scanner will probably include a CD with the scanner program if you buy it new. I bought my scanner secondhand, so it didn't have a CD.
If you don't get a CD (or the software on the CD is only for other Windows versions), you can use Photoshop or GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/ , a free program very similar to Photoshop) to scan it. Then you just connect the scanner to your computer and Photoshop or GIMP can find the scanner.
Another scanning program I like is XSane: http://www.xsane.org
I can make screenshots of Photoshop, GIMP and XSane if you need any help, I have all those programs on my computer :)

14susieimage
Giu 16, 2011, 9:30 pm

Thanks a lot, mene. I'll think about getting the scanner.

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