Reimaging

cacheman

I have been trying to finish up getting all of the new Goetz medals imaged to update my web gallery but began to notice that a lot of the ones already in the gallery needed to be redone too. Such is the life of an anal retentive mind....

Anyway, I will be redoing most of the current images also but probably not before I update the whole gallery with the new stuff. I thought I would share a reimage of Goetz's Opus 10 Count Helmuth von Moltke that I just finished. There is a big difference when the sharpness isn't amped so high. I just love this medal and it's imagery...

Placid

cosmicdebris

Great images Scott. Nice overall even appearance and great sharp focus.

Hey you seen the SHOTS mgoodm3 is doing with his new digital SLR Nikon? I think this Christmas I am moving to a digital SLR.

oldshep

Color me green!!!!
Shep

cacheman

I'm doing this reimaging with a three year old UMAX Astra 3400 scanner...that's right, a scanner! Once scanned, I clip then resize each image to 400 X 400 pixels. I then do an autofix on them through Photoshop then combine the two images into one. I will be looking for used UMAX scanners long before I'd buy another spendy camera. Do you blame me if I can get images like this?

cosmicdebris

A Scanner????????????????????? Holy Chit.

theboz11

My jaw hit the floor!! Scanner Huh? You must expound my kind Sir!

cacheman

The size of the trimmed image thast comes from the scanner that is set to scan at 400 X 400 pixel resolution

wybrit

Wow. Did you tilt the piece at all or just lay it flat?

cacheman

It is just laying the way it'll lay...some with thicker designs will lay tilted on the bed but the scanner must have good depth of field because it doesn't seem to matter. I just clean the glass each time, lay the medal down, cover with black velour, close the lid, preview scan and adjust for alignment, then finalize a scan and send it for cropping and sizing.

I know what's going to happen now that I am talking about the scanner........I better go knock on some wood...

Here's another I reimaged last night...not as sweet as the one above but a far cry better than the same example I have up on my web gallery right now. Obviously, the condition and patination of the medal will influence how well a medal will scan. This example below doesn't have the dark, matte patina of the Gussfrisch (as struck) piece above...

trozau

Great picture! Hands down, the Moltke medal is still my favorite Goetz. Glad I got my struck version but I would still like to have the bigger cast version.

theboz11

I would say you have decreased camera sales and increased scanner sales, think I'm going to practice on some of those cat medals,,what about combining techniques.

cacheman

you know, I never had any luck with proofs...the best results appear to result from imaging coins/medals that have a matte finsih which cuts way down on any reflections from the high points.

Clankeye

Oh, that's nice. The medal in the first post. Beautiful. Both medal and imaging.


Roll on, Cacheman!

Clankeye

wybrit

I have a UMAX scanner Astra 3450 and have found it to do a pretty good job with nonlustrous copper, such as this:

cacheman

Yeah wybrit, now place them on a black background, or cover them with something black when scanning and the pieces will jump right out.

aem4162

lovely!

MacCrimmon

Hey Scott,

What's that German "Schnauzer" saying about the bagpiper? Maybe the German's reference to the Scottish "Ladies from Hell" with our wee kilts!!

ColinCMR

very cool!!!

Askari

Cool!!