How To Scan a Cylinder Record Box Label

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How To Scan a Cylinder Record Box Label

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Here is what I came up with to get decent images of a cylinder box label. Not sure if I'm the first to come up with this idea, but I think it works great and is a great improvement over taking a bunch of stills around the box and stitching them together.

Cliff

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Re: How To Scan a Cylinder Record Box Label

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Well done.

Ray Phillips came up with same basic idea about 20 years ago when he did a couple of article for the old "Sound Box" (a newsletter then, not yet a magazine) about Bettini labels. But he did it on a xerox machine. It worked well and he was able to get pretty decent images of the many different variations.

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