>We are looking to purchase a new scanner and don't know where to 
>begin.  With such a large range of products available, I was 
>wondering if anyone can let me know some information about what to 
>look for in a scanner?  Our main use for this will be scanning 
>historic photographs. In your experience, when scanning photos what 
>is the best resolution to use?
>
>Thanks for any advice you can offer.
>Laura Abrams
>Cohasset Historical Society
>
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Go to the Daguerreian Society web site at http://daguerre.org/ for 
ideas.  And check out the magical way Heritage Galleries has of 
enlarging images at http://www.ha.com/  .

Or just take a look at my web site photos at 
http://www.jimlyons.com/siteindex.html
The lady in the Daguerreotype section called "Pensive Lady" appeared 
on the cover of Newsweek for Feb 6, 2006.  (Ignore the counter at the 
top of the Dag link; I haven't really had 16 billion visitors. (Or if 
I have had, I'd better start looking into paid ads ;-)) ).

(Don't overlook the photos under Funny Captions in the index.  I'm 
going to enlarge these some day.)

My scanner is just a common old Epson Perfection 1200U I've had for 
probably five or more years.  The editing program was Mac System 9 
Adobe PhotoDeluxe, the predecessor of today's Adobe Elements.  The 
settings were usually just whatever came.

-Jim Lyons

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