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ranfordfan
Posts: 4,975
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| Monday, April 16, 2018 10:07 PM | |
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ranfordfan
Posts: 4,975
Joined: Jun 2014
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| Monday, April 16, 2018 10:15 PM | |
And I will do jason (who's words are the truth) a favor and quote this verythread one last time. Thanks sandy your last sentence speaks volumes. 20,000 and pfffffttt. Done.
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carthage44
Posts: 279
Joined: Sep 2011
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| Monday, April 16, 2018 10:20 PM | |
This is fun! Are you all having fun yet?
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spazmatastic
Posts: 5,877
Joined: Dec 2014
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| Monday, April 16, 2018 11:56 PM | |
I'll only add one thing to this conversation. A LOT of the "bad" scans were added LONG ago... before the site was so specific and even before scanners could do close to what they can do now. The 'top members' have been here a long time and have been adding scans throughout that time. The site couldn't handle the scan size then that it can now and scan size now is way better quality than it was then.
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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending a trade or buy offer. _______________________________________________________________________ Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/31/23): STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8700+; Carolina Panthers - 2800+; GB Packers - 1700+ cards Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2034 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1776+ cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1563; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 828; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 692+
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Billy Kingsley
Posts: 7,487
Joined: Aug 2011
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:01 AM | |
Getting high quality scans has been possible since at least 2005. (My first scanner got better scans than the three that replaced it) that's before this website even existed. Choosing to post crappy scans is a choice. Especially when fixing them add literally only two seconds and is free.
There's actually a size limit now that didn't used to exist when I started posting. I'm glad I did the oversized cards when I did because I need to compress them now to post them.
Carthage, take a look at who uploaded the scans that caused this thread. It wasn't you. This person always posts lousy scans, that are either overcropped or under cropped, but NEVER cropped correctly, all are washed out or overexposed and roughly half are crooked. All stuff that's easy to fix in under a minute combined...but you have to actually care enough to put in the effort.
Jason, it isn't good that we have another of these threads. But, they would not be needed if people actually bothered to do it right. This website is bigger, more important than ANY of us. The work we are doing here will hopefully be the benchmark of the hobby for generations. I believe that it should be done correctly.
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VERY slow trading due to health problems. Not transferrable so safe to trade with, just moving is painful and can't always access the cards. Cardboard History My COMC New Collection Website: Cardboard History Gallery (Still under construction) Tips on how to make your scans look like the card does in hand (No more washed out, fuzzy scans!):
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T206
Posts: 694
Joined: Feb 2018
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:53 AM | |
I have been adding scans and know I have had about 30-40 rejected and that is OK with me. For once the scan has been entered I then put the cards in a stack wait a week and go back to see what has been rejected and do another scan. (so definitly not the same scan) I am not sure how many scans I have done I would guess around 300-500 scans and most of those are rookie autos and gameused cards.
What I dont understand is why on some of the rejections I do see it say photograph when all the cards I do is scanned heck I gave up my cell phone about 2 weeks after I joined this site and enjoy more freedom without a cell phone and can enjoy my fishing trips a lot better
Also I am not sure how to correct the refractors for the light from the snanner gives the card a sun spot (glare) Maybe I need a better scanner and once this one goes Komeput I will get the high resolution scanner.
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spazmatastic
Posts: 5,877
Joined: Dec 2014
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2018 3:31 AM | |
Maybe I didn't make my point clear in my last post. Ten years ago, a scan of any card was well over a megabyte for a single high-quality scan, but low-end scans were only a few dozen/hundred kilobytes. Websites couldn't handle that MB size for a transfer/upload. Then scanners got better while websites had to limit size even more as the sites got more expansive. Just for THIS site, the size restriction changed after I first joined in 2014. Scans I was making when I joined were good, but then a short while later, my scan files were to big to load here and I had to change the way I scan by lowering the DPI. Since then, not a single scan has not met the requirements of the site. I'd love to be able to scan at something like 600 to 1200 DPI, but no site can take on that upload level. Photo-sharing sites won't even let me upload at that level, even if it's just one scan at a time.
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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending a trade or buy offer. _______________________________________________________________________ Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/31/23): STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8700+; Carolina Panthers - 2800+; GB Packers - 1700+ cards Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2034 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1776+ cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1563; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 828; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 692+
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Splinter_9
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2018 3:51 AM | |
Photo labs print at ~300-350 dpi.
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A man has to have goals — for a day, for a lifetime — and that was mine, to have people say, "There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived."
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Billy Kingsley
Posts: 7,487
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:26 AM | |
Fotki does...I've had my website there since 2004. Over 400,000 images, including all my scans that have been posted here and those that didn't need to be posted here. When I used to have dial-up, I once tried to do an upload that was scheduled to take 47 hours! Went to a motel with my laptop and high-speed internet, it took 28 minutes, lol. Went high-speed at home in November 2004 and have not looked back. Fotki is not free...it costs me $96 a year and I may have to bump up to the next largest storage capacity in the not too distant future...but until I joined here it was my favorite website on the internet. It can support any size photo, and even videos, in the same album.
You can see my website by clicking HERE. It's mostly car stuff (my true passion), but pretty much every topic you can think of is covered. I collect a wide variety of things beyond cards, all of which I'm photo documenting and/or scanning, and my Nature Shots and Trips section is my favorite, actually. Here's a direct link to the first card I ever scanned, which was October 18th, 2005 (the same day I uploaded it). I had the card handy, but I hadn't learned yet that you needed to leave space between the edge of the scanner and what you are trying to scan. I also didn't know how to correct the "film" that all scanners put on everything. That came later. That first scanner wasn't anywhere near as bad with that as the three that came later, and to be honest I'd still be using that one if my computer would recognize it.
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VERY slow trading due to health problems. Not transferrable so safe to trade with, just moving is painful and can't always access the cards. Cardboard History My COMC New Collection Website: Cardboard History Gallery (Still under construction) Tips on how to make your scans look like the card does in hand (No more washed out, fuzzy scans!):
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CollectingAfterDeath
Posts: 1,219
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2018 6:02 AM | |
Edited on: Aug 14, 2020 - 8:14PM
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