using scanner for coins, and/or photographs

[Dick]

Ed, is it you who uses a scanner for coins? Who ever it is, wouuld you PM me? I have a ? about scanning pgotos. thanks,
Dick

[eagames]

Dick,

I use cardboard tubes with lenses I salvaged from things. I often use several lenses taped together with a hose gromet spacer between them then I wrap it in thin carboard to make a tube that fits over my cheapo $45 5Mp HP cameras snout. I make it fit snug enough that it stays but can easily be swapped out or removed.

I have one for close ups (3 lenses) and one for full coins (1 lense).

I've never had a scanner or microscope. I should invest but I'm always a re-user and I hate buying anything other than pennies.
I'm the customer that sales people hate because I always say "who needs that rubbish"!

[Dick]

ED, you are a man after my own heart! You will understand what I mean when I say I am an old pack-rat! When I move, it takes a van to hold everything in the house, and a RR box-car to haul my "stuff"!
Ed, what I am looking for, now, is a way to use my flatbed scanner to make reproductions od some pictures I have from WWI era. Some shiops, and the Memorial building, "way back when". I want 300 for the size. That way they can be handled on the bucket, or in an email Moatly, for any detail that would lead to the ID of any of the shipd. One is an old BB, (Battleship, and there is an old four-stacker, plus some sailing types. If you would like to see them, I can send the same email with them, to you. I just need an email addy.
Dick

[eagames]

Dick, I'll send it.

[Dick]

10-4!

[GarryN]

I had mixed results using a scanner. Some years ago, I took some coins to a Kinko's and used their photocopy scanner. The silver coins turned out well and the copper did not.

[Dick]

I have a new Canon flat-bed scanner, but can't figure out how top make it do what I want. It does it's "thing", but mine are un-done. I can't have that. So it collects dust.
Dick