Nils, your scan is ready!
Posted on November 5, 2006
Filed Under All, Photos, My Brain |
I have been promising old friend Nils Grevillius (’Los Angeles’ best private detective’) a scan of this canvas, a 1981 portrait of John Reid by dear, deceased friend Joe Ferris. Nils, friend and family of Joe, has been asking me for this for more than a year now, and it somehow kept falling through the cracks. Nils has sent me any number of very nice prints of Joe’s work in the interim.
I’m trying to wrap up loose ends before the surgery, so, Nils, look in your e-mail! I finally fired up my new hi-res scanner and did a 9600-dpi scan of this small canvas. I may have some time on my hands and will try to get you a decent print and/or an uncompressed version of the scan of this after I’m out of the hospital. Joe was a complete original… and very talented… our lives are richer for having known him…
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[…] Last year, I bought a Mustek 11×17 scanner for $180. It is relatively lo-res (300 dpi native) with a limited dynamic range and terrible software. It is very slow, a situation compounded by its USB 1.1 interface: I did manage to do a high-res scan of one of Joe Ferris’ canvases for friend Nils Grevillius which, with a few dozen other scans probably got me more than even (large format scans are expensive). But the Mustek is not a good choice for what I have in mind. […]