This may be of interest.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emma Cavalier ecavalier@npg.org.uk Date: 4 September 2012 15:09 Subject: Context A2 scanner for sale To: MCG@jiscmail.ac.uk
The National Portrait Gallery have recently installed a brand new photographic studio and no longer have use for their Contex CopyMate18 A2 scanner. Rather than send the still working scanner for disposal we'd like to invite offers from institutions who might be able to make use of it. Recommended use would be digitising newspapers or other large documents. Monochrome photographs required quite a bit of post-scanning processing in Photoshop although full colour photographs were quite successful. The scanner did not replace our A4 or A3 scanning equipment but was purchased to allow us to digitise works larger than A3. We are offering the CopyMate 18 scanner, usb & power cables, calibration chart, all the scanner software (original cds and more recent downloads), third party software and dongle from Colorado (this give us more accurate colour output than the Contex software), plus electronic copies of instruction manuals from Contex and basic installation, common errors and maintenance instructions written in-house). The software is Windows only and requires a PC with at least 3GB of RAM. The scanner was purchased in 2006 and used approximately once a week. It was last serviced, including new lamps in April 2009 and has not been used for the last 4 months. It measures approximately 130 x 65 x 20 cm and at least two people will be needed to move it. It will need to be collected from the National Portrait Gallery's administration building in Central London by the end of September. The scanner will be sold as seen, no guarantee is given or implied. It will be possible to view the scanner in action at the Gallery at the time of collection. The contact details of the maintenance company we used for servicing can be provided and we recommend that the scanner is serviced after installing it in its final location.
Please email Emma Cavalier if you are interested.
Best regards Emma Cavalier Digitisation Manager, National Portrait Gallery ecavalier@npg.org.uk
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Very interesting indeed! Although quite where we'd put it...
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On 4 September 2012 15:19, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
This may be of interest.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emma Cavalier ecavalier@npg.org.uk Date: 4 September 2012 15:09 Subject: Context A2 scanner for sale To: MCG@jiscmail.ac.uk
The National Portrait Gallery have recently installed a brand new photographic studio and no longer have use for their Contex CopyMate18 A2 scanner. Rather than send the still working scanner for disposal we'd like to invite offers from institutions who might be able to make use of it. Recommended use would be digitising newspapers or other large documents. Monochrome photographs required quite a bit of post-scanning processing in Photoshop although full colour photographs were quite successful. The scanner did not replace our A4 or A3 scanning equipment but was purchased to allow us to digitise works larger than A3. We are offering the CopyMate 18 scanner, usb & power cables, calibration chart, all the scanner software (original cds and more recent downloads), third party software and dongle from Colorado (this give us more accurate colour output than the Contex software), plus electronic copies of instruction manuals from Contex and basic installation, common errors and maintenance instructions written in-house). The software is Windows only and requires a PC with at least 3GB of RAM. The scanner was purchased in 2006 and used approximately once a week. It was last serviced, including new lamps in April 2009 and has not been used for the last 4 months. It measures approximately 130 x 65 x 20 cm and at least two people will be needed to move it. It will need to be collected from the National Portrait Gallery's administration building in Central London by the end of September. The scanner will be sold as seen, no guarantee is given or implied. It will be possible to view the scanner in action at the Gallery at the time of collection. The contact details of the maintenance company we used for servicing can be provided and we recommend that the scanner is serviced after installing it in its final location.
Please email Emma Cavalier if you are interested.
Best regards Emma Cavalier Digitisation Manager, National Portrait Gallery ecavalier@npg.org.uk
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On 4 September 2012 15:34, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Very interesting indeed! Although quite where we'd put it...
This is definitely one of those cases where the amazing awesomeness of it would be let down by the sheer practical implications - this is equivalent to having to buy and maintain an additional staff desk!
(I used to share an office with an A3 scanner - it was a beast. An A2 scanner you'd have to build the office around.)
Might be possible to work something out...
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On 4 September 2012 15:44, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 4 September 2012 15:34, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Very interesting indeed! Although quite where we'd put it...
This is definitely one of those cases where the amazing awesomeness of it would be let down by the sheer practical implications - this is equivalent to having to buy and maintain an additional staff desk!
(I used to share an office with an A3 scanner - it was a beast. An A2 scanner you'd have to build the office around.)
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What would we actually scan on it? When we've discussed digitisation equipment before, I think it has usually been in relation to one of those scanners for books. Are there many flat works larger than A3 that we are likely to want to digitise? On Sep 4, 2012 3:20 PM, "Andy Mabbett" andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
This may be of interest.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emma Cavalier ecavalier@npg.org.uk Date: 4 September 2012 15:09 Subject: Context A2 scanner for sale To: MCG@jiscmail.ac.uk
The National Portrait Gallery have recently installed a brand new photographic studio and no longer have use for their Contex CopyMate18 A2 scanner. Rather than send the still working scanner for disposal we'd like to invite offers from institutions who might be able to make use of it. Recommended use would be digitising newspapers or other large documents. Monochrome photographs required quite a bit of post-scanning processing in Photoshop although full colour photographs were quite successful. The scanner did not replace our A4 or A3 scanning equipment but was purchased to allow us to digitise works larger than A3. We are offering the CopyMate 18 scanner, usb & power cables, calibration chart, all the scanner software (original cds and more recent downloads), third party software and dongle from Colorado (this give us more accurate colour output than the Contex software), plus electronic copies of instruction manuals from Contex and basic installation, common errors and maintenance instructions written in-house). The software is Windows only and requires a PC with at least 3GB of RAM. The scanner was purchased in 2006 and used approximately once a week. It was last serviced, including new lamps in April 2009 and has not been used for the last 4 months. It measures approximately 130 x 65 x 20 cm and at least two people will be needed to move it. It will need to be collected from the National Portrait Gallery's administration building in Central London by the end of September. The scanner will be sold as seen, no guarantee is given or implied. It will be possible to view the scanner in action at the Gallery at the time of collection. The contact details of the maintenance company we used for servicing can be provided and we recommend that the scanner is serviced after installing it in its final location.
Please email Emma Cavalier if you are interested.
Best regards Emma Cavalier Digitisation Manager, National Portrait Gallery ecavalier@npg.org.uk
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Predominantly maps, I would assume. However, it'd be better to write the plan first and then see what equipment we need to beg/borrow/steal, rather than the other way around...
- Andrew.
On Tuesday, 4 September 2012, Thomas Dalton wrote:
What would we actually scan on it? When we've discussed digitisation equipment before, I think it has usually been in relation to one of those scanners for books. Are there many flat works larger than A3 that we are likely to want to digitise? On Sep 4, 2012 3:20 PM, "Andy Mabbett" <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk');>> wrote:
This may be of interest.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emma Cavalier <ecavalier@npg.org.uk <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'ecavalier@npg.org.uk');>> Date: 4 September 2012 15:09 Subject: Context A2 scanner for sale To: MCG@jiscmail.ac.uk <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'MCG@jiscmail.ac.uk');>
The National Portrait Gallery have recently installed a brand new photographic studio and no longer have use for their Contex CopyMate18 A2 scanner. Rather than send the still working scanner for disposal we'd like to invite offers from institutions who might be able to make use of it. Recommended use would be digitising newspapers or other large documents. Monochrome photographs required quite a bit of post-scanning processing in Photoshop although full colour photographs were quite successful. The scanner did not replace our A4 or A3 scanning equipment but was purchased to allow us to digitise works larger than A3. We are offering the CopyMate 18 scanner, usb & power cables, calibration chart, all the scanner software (original cds and more recent downloads), third party software and dongle from Colorado (this give us more accurate colour output than the Contex software), plus electronic copies of instruction manuals from Contex and basic installation, common errors and maintenance instructions written in-house). The software is Windows only and requires a PC with at least 3GB of RAM. The scanner was purchased in 2006 and used approximately once a week. It was last serviced, including new lamps in April 2009 and has not been used for the last 4 months. It measures approximately 130 x 65 x 20 cm and at least two people will be needed to move it. It will need to be collected from the National Portrait Gallery's administration building in Central London by the end of September. The scanner will be sold as seen, no guarantee is given or implied. It will be possible to view the scanner in action at the Gallery at the time of collection. The contact details of the maintenance company we used for servicing can be provided and we recommend that the scanner is serviced after installing it in its final location.
Please email Emma Cavalier if you are interested.
Best regards Emma Cavalier Digitisation Manager, National Portrait Gallery ecavalier@npg.org.uk <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'ecavalier@npg.org.uk');>
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On 4 September 2012 18:30, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
What would we actually scan on it? When we've discussed digitisation equipment before, I think it has usually been in relation to one of those scanners for books. Are there many flat works larger than A3 that we are likely to want to digitise? Not many. The only PD works of that size that are held by wikipedians
that I'm aware of are some OS maps and some medical images.
If something does come up a setup that allowed a DSLR (quite a few wikimedians with those) to be placed above the item in order to photograph it would be an adequate solution in most cases.
On 05/09/12 09:07, geni wrote:
If something does come up a setup that allowed a DSLR (quite a few wikimedians with those) to be placed above the item in order to photograph it would be an adequate solution in most cases.
-- geni
This was the system used in a digital archive project that I was involved in (letters, pamphlets, books, newspaper cuttings, handwritten pages etc). The advantage is that the material can be any size (possibly bigger than A2) if you use a camera and tripod with a laptop. And speed: scanning several thousand objects on a scanner is not really feasible. Watching this and then seeing the results, lighting is the key. If you cover the object with glass or perspex to flatten it, then reflection is a big problem. As I said, I watched this, rather carried out the process.
But I worked on the restoration phase of the project (using Japanese paper and a starch based glue for example). The archive is now in the Bishopsgate Institute.
Examples of how it can be done (there are professional tripod and camera setups as well).
http://www.subchaser.org/photographing-documents
http://uiuc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=6243&sid=40037
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/scanning/a/CameraAsScanner.htm
Gordo
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