@mackensen @jalefkowit

I just finished levelling and cropping the pages, as well as doing the necessary rescans for blurry sides and bottom sections that got cut off on the original scans.
But I've been working on scans for 7 hours now, so I have quite the headache, so it's time to stop for today.
If everything goes right, I should be able to do the final editing tomorrow and have it ready for release on Sunday already.

Again, thank you so much for everything. 😊
It can be so depressing to buy a bunch of magazines and then see them arrive with missing pages or stuff that's cut out.
Had this happen with half a dozen of N-Force issues last year as well.
Luckily, I found another seller who had all of those as well as a bunch more SNES and Mega Drive magazines, so I was able to pick up intact ones soon after.

@COMPU73E @apzpins

It's always a bit of a gamble as well since I did buy 2 new models from Canon, the 300 and 400 when they released, but despite being the brand new line, the quality of the scans just wasn't up to what I'm happy with.

The old ones really do magazines scans beautifully. While it looks like the new ones just focus on documents.
No matter of calibration could get them up to the standard I was looking for.

So it's easier and safer to go with the thing I know and have used for well over 10 years now.
No surprises, no fuss, everything just works in how I set up my workflow.

@COMPU73E @apzpins

All the ones I'm seeing are with document feeders, so I would need to cut up all the magazines to be able to feed them in there.

While a flatbed scanner isn't ideal either, due to the stress on the plate from having to push down the lid to get pages scanned without any blur, and thus wearing our the mechanism a lot faster.
They are excellent for doing the extra scans needed as you can do 3 or 4 strips needed to edit pages, where you'd have to do it one by one in an autofeeder and then hope for the best.

@apzpins

It's really frustrating that these companies don't seem to care at all about consistency.
While most people just buy one of these to scan some documents every now and then, it kinda makes sense I guess.

But from a quality standpoint, it leaves a lot to be desired, to put it mildly.

I actually think that the new line of Lide scanners are a big step backwards from the 220 and 210s.

I thought I'd be able to just do the colour correction thing and, while it may take a bit of time to get them exactly where I wanted them to be, the overall detail and clarity of them didn't match up to the 220.
So I completely abandoned the thought of going with a 300 or 400 and started buying some more 220's, which all have given up the ghost now.

@picandocodigo

Ah, that made my day!

I couldn't tear myself away from it last night despite to getting really late (for me anyway).

It starts off a bit weird and is actually a tutorial section more or less, but once Donkey Kong loses his pants, that's when it get truly fun! 😄

Just incredible, so many secrets and hidden things around each and every corner.
I'm not going for a 100% each level as I go through them, but I do explore a lot.
Heard something about the post game being a good place to look for missing stuff, so that's what I'm going to do so I don't get frustrated when there is just that one fossil left that I can't seem to find in a particular level.

Played just past the first Bananza and if it keeps going like this, and can keep things fresh and perhaps even get better, this might very well be my game of the year. 😊

@MutantFuturist

Well, it's not so much that these are the be-all and end-all scanners for magazine scans.
But more so that I'm locked into the specific way the scans look.

You see, each and every model, even from the same company tends to work a bit differently, coupled with the scan software that they use, the colour values, white highlights and shadow detail can and do vary wildly.

The 210 and 220 are pretty close, and yet still have serious colour variations.

But about a decade ago, I spend a whole summer trying to perfect the overall look of my scans compared to the actual magazines in real life and under sunny conditions.
It took a ton of experimenting until I was happy with the results, which is what you can see in the work on the site now.

So my settings for these two models are basically "dialled in".
If I were to use another model, like I did with the Lide 300 and 400, which I've both tried, I run into issues where the scans look nowhere near as nice as the ones on my older model.