Newtype Magazine - What was your first experience....

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Argh! Stopped already! The paper size for the mags is larger than any of my scanners by 1/2 inch! I forgot...these use a metric paper size that will not fit most US scanners! Will have to wait til I can find a larger one or else I get an Epson with Digital Ice to clean up the images. I need one of those for slide work anyway. My old HP scanner would have been perfect since it can scan up to 4800dpi, while my cheap one can only do 600...

But...maybe I can photograph the mags in question with my 10 Megapixel camera since I use a tripod for that. It's worth a shot...

The kids mags should fit though. I did some test shots before but they were from my camera...



Scanned and resized (the original is 600dpi 8MB)

Wow, those covers already look great! Only five Super Sentai on the cover, we are up to the 37th right now. I'd be interested in whatever Tsurikichi Sanpei stuff is in that book, I can spot him on the top.

[kndy]

Argh! Stopped already! The paper size for the mags is larger than any of my scanners by 1/2 inch! I forgot...these use a metric paper size that will not fit most US scanners! Will have to wait til I can find a larger one or else I get an Epson with Digital Ice to clean up the images. I need one of those for slide work anyway. My old HP scanner would have been perfect since it can scan up to 4800dpi, while my cheap one can only do 600...

But...maybe I can photograph the mags in question with my 10 Megapixel camera since I use a tripod for that. It's worth a shot...

The kids mags should fit though. I did some test shots before but they were from my camera...



Scanned and resized (the original is 600dpi 8MB)

Wow, those covers already look great! Only five Super Sentai on the cover, we are up to the 37th right now. I'd be interested in whatever Tsurikichi Sanpei stuff is in that book, I can spot him on the top.

Awesome!!! As for the magazine size...I hear you...I was trying to scan the Newtype magazines but they were too large and I was too lazy to shoot it via my DSLR.

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The only way to really scan the pages would require me to break the back of the mag which I would be loathe to do. Sorry...

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Problem solved! Well, at least for any mag but NewType. Needed to use my old scanner as well as new drivers for my new computer and everything for media size set to max! Results:



So, now all the old mag covers can be scanned and posted. I'm doing them as Jpegs with 10% compression but if you would prefer the originals in TIFF, my scanner software can do that. File sizes will be huge, but that's not much of a problem anymore and you can do a lot more with the images. Let me know...

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The only way to really scan the pages would require me to break the back of the mag which I would be loathe to do. Sorry...

That's okay, thank you so much! Its a series I've always been very interested in, but stuff for it is difficult to find. Apparently they made a live-action movie a few years back.

[kndy]

Problem solved! Well, at least for any mag but NewType. Needed to use my old scanner as well as new drivers for my new computer and everything for media size set to max! Results:



So, now all the old mag covers can be scanned and posted. I'm doing them as Jpegs with 10% compression but if you would prefer the originals in TIFF, my scanner software can do that. File sizes will be huge, but that's not much of a problem anymore and you can do a lot more with the images. Let me know...

Not sure if it would help to put it on flickr and then you can choose the size you want to embed on the forums. But if you do go on Flickr, please add your photos to the following group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/anime-mang ... l-archive/

[labsenpai]

I collected about ten years worth of Newtype from various sources back in the 90's. I still have most of the better inserts and posters, but the issues themselves needed a better home. Last year, I donated them to Ohio State's Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum, which actually has a considerable amount of manga. Even though I was never a student there, I was part of their anime club, so I consider my gift a kharmic payment.

Later, I may post the odd posters I'd be happy to sell to fans. I think there is a thread on this board for sales...

[usamimi]

labsenpai, I would TOTALLY be interested in seeing what you'd be selling, I have a weakness for those old Newtype/Animage/Animedia/whatever posters

[labsenpai]

Here is a montage of loose posters still taking up space. Not shown are a couple horizontal layouts of Borgman and Saiyuki, some ubiquitous Gundam.
I'd say you could only count on a really nice poster half of the time.

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I used to have lots of videostore posters from Japan. Gave most of them away though. Might have a few left if I go looking for them. Still got too much in the way of advertising papers from Japanese video stores lying around here. Stacks of them...