Large image copying??

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#302520 29-Nov-2022 09:23

Hi,

Himself has a poster made up of a collage of rugby images.

It's about 94*62cm, but adhered to a hardboard backing.

Warehouse Stationery and a local copy shop in Pukekohe are unable to copy it because of it's size and backing.

Too big for their flatbed scanners and can't be fed through a continuous scanner.

Can anyone recommend a place where we could take it to be digitalised?

Yes, I have taken a photo of it, but enlarging the photo back to 94*62cm is pretty ropey looking.

Thanks.

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#3002976 29-Nov-2022 10:15

Take multiple photos and stitch it together to become one large photo.

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#3002977 29-Nov-2022 10:18

@timmmay time consuming, but a pretty good idea. Thank you.

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#3002998 29-Nov-2022 11:10

Used to be time consuming but I think many recent camera devices have an automated panorama mode. You probably only need it to look good rather than perfect.

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#3003000 29-Nov-2022 11:22

Stitching software is reasonably common and pretty easy to use, so its not hard to assemble a collection of photos into a single image

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#3003140 29-Nov-2022 15:43

Google photo will stitch photos

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#3007172 8-Dec-2022 08:32

I'm not sure Google photo still has an app that will stitch together panoramic photos. I have used the Microsoft Image Composite Editor which is a free app that works pretty well and is simple to use. It's not longer developed or supported but runs happily on Windows 10, and it's free..

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#3015997 2-Jan-2023 02:07

Why not take the collage to a pro photographer's shop?

Some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that you need somewhere in the vicinity of 60 megapixels to accommodate the 'information' you can see in the 'document'. A top-end pro camera can likely provide that. Plus, a photographer should have lighting that will suit the image you want to digitise; very unlikely that you've got anything equivalent at home.