Some of The Badges I Have Collected

[edstorey]

[boots and saddles]

Very nice Ed, Not too often will you see the plastic pin(fastener) They are much harder to find than the badge.

[Bill A]

Nice badges Ed. Would you consider allowing them to be used in the Canadian Badge Index?

[edstorey]

[Infanteer]

Great photos Ed. Wish I could get my camera to focus that clearly.

[Bwetdude]

Originally Posted by Infanteer

Great photos Ed. Wish I could get my camera to focus that clearly.

You need to use the "macro" mode (flower) and external lighting with the custom "white balance" (WB) in your settings.

Or if your lens distorts the image (fisheye effect), get back a bit a zoom on the badge. (without the macro on).

By the way, I'm quite envious of the badges.... that's it I've been naughty, it's going to be coal in my X-mas sock!

[edstorey]

The images were taken with a scanner, a Microteck. I get good results with my camera, but I think these are clearer.

Bill: Yes, go ahead and use the images in the index.

[davec2]

Hi Patrick,

[ By the way, I'm quite envious of the badges.... that's it I've been naughty, it's going to be coal in my X-mas sock! ]

If being envious is ' naughty ', I've got no chance !!!

Dave.

[servicepub]

Originally Posted by edstorey

The images were taken with a scanner, a Microteck. .

The advantage of a scanner is that your badges are always at the same ratio and don't have to be scaled in order to be in proportion to other scanned badges. This is great when you want to put them into a book.

[Infanteer]

Originally Posted by edstorey

The images were taken with a scanner, a Microteck. I get good results with my camera, but I think these are clearer.

Bill: Yes, go ahead and use the images in the index.

Ed, do you just hold a backing material behind the badges or do you actually close the lid of the scanner? I'm a little paranoid about scratching the glass with metal objects on the scanner, but with results like what you are able to achieve I think it is worth a try.

Oh, and if those officer collar badges are surplus to your needs I could give them a good home

[Bwetdude]

But sometimes a scanner makes reflections that could make you believe that the image is convex when it is concave (and the other way around).

The best is to use this nice item (that won't fit in my Xmas sock)

Reproduction bench

But a scanner is way cheaper.!

[edstorey]

Yes, I place the item directly on the glass, lay the backing material on it and then lightly close the lid on the item. The weight of the lid holds most items up quite nicely. Here is the FSSF crossed arrows.

[LLWill]

"Ed" - Great Badges and nice scanned images

The question of how to use your scanner to produce images is a good one. You do not want to damage your scanner. If you look here in the forum at the CEF Gallery, most of the images are mine and are produced with an Epson scanner.

I use foam board from Staples/Office Depot ... , cut it to the size of the scanner bed and then glue strips of foam board on the back. This provides a spacer for the scanner lid. The badges a pushed through the foam board but the lugs will not touch the glass because of the spacer.

I usually scan at 600 to 800 dpi and I try to set the frame of the images to the same size. I also set the scanner to "reflective". Once the image is produced I use photo shop (light) to adjust the canvas of the image to be just slightly larger than the badge.

I find that using a scanner produces images that are a consistent quality, lighting and aspect ratio. Even badges that are very 3D (185th) will scan correctly. I increase the dpi settings, the scanner takes longer to focus/produce the image and that seems to get around the depth of field issue.

Anyway - nice images - I hope you can share them with the forum so that we can include them in the gallery and index

[edstorey]

This is the best of my printed 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion titles.

[Infanteer]

I've never seen a 1 CPB canvas title that was so perfect before.... my first impression was that it was a fake but I guess not... congratulations!