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Posted by gms
on April 14, 2018, 14:01:45, in reply to "Re: It's already started, but that ain't necessarily good."
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: I've noticed many of the scans available from
: history.navy.mil can be "fuzzy"
: with less detail than the same images I
: already had from other sources (probably
: from researchers like you) even though they
: were over twice the resolution. And a lot of
: them exhibit warping like this one:
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: I'm still grateful for what they make
: available on the net.
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: Don't stop with just the books...
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: You've got to understand that this isn't
: necessarily a good thing though. Fold3
: scanned in the war diaries and NARA
: considers them their "reference
: copy" now, but you either need to pay
: Fold3 to access them or go to a NARA
: facility to use their computers to see them
: "for free."
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: Photographic floor is working on digitizing
: photos (very, very slowly) but they consider
: "high resolution" to be 300DPI,
: which is honestly just the minimum for print
: media. You know those photos with stuff in
: the background you'd like to blow up? Once
: they have the "high resolution"
: copies scanned in the originals are going to
: be off-limits unless you can justify access.
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