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How to Preserve Physical Photos

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79 points goodburb | 1 comments | 22 Jul 24 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kvetching ◴[27 Jul 24 11:05 UTC] No.41085759[source]▶
After very close review and comparison of the pixels of sharp photos, I've found high quality JPG to be superior to TIFF. JPG captures slightly more detail, at least with my Epson DS-560 duplex scanner @ 600dpi.

Does anyone know of a scanner that does better than 600dpi that isn't insanely expensive? High quality photos can have extreme details that 600 dpi can't capture.

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1. contrarian1234 ◴[27 Jul 24 11:16 UTC] No.41085801[source]▶
Most flatbed scanners will do 4800dpi. You can often do 16bit color depth as well (though you'll be limited to TIFF). File sizes are huge naturally and the scans take a very long time

Ex: https://www.amazon.com/Epson-Perfection-Resolution-High-Rise...

(first one that comes up when I typed "Amazon Epson Scanner")