Re: Need help identifying Sound Card

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber suggested:

>"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
>20031025220547.12291.00000203@mb-m01.aol.com">news:20031025220547.12291.00000203@mb-m01.aol.com...
>> Joe asked:
>>
>> >I finally got off my but and startign taking some pics of the hardware
>I'm
>> >trying to identify.
>> >These two pics are of the same sound card.  It has three GI AY-3-810
>chips:
>> >
>> >http://home.comcast.net/~ikvsabre/AppleII/DSCN0201.JPG
>> >http://home.comcast.net/~ikvsabre/AppleII/DSCN0202.JPG
>> >
>< snip>
>>
>> BTW, when taking pictures of cards, try to use a background
>> without detail, like a sheet of fine-grain paper, and, instead of
>> moving the camera off-axis to avoid reflections, move the light
>> off-axis.  This will keep everything in focus and the detail-free
>> background will shrink the .jpg files.
>
>Or if you have a flat-bed scanner, scan in color at 300 dpi, both
>sides of the card and all the detail will be even better than seeing
>the card in person.

Whether this works well depends a great deal on the scanner.

Some scanners have good depth of field, and will render the card
beautifully.  Others have very shallow depth of field, and will create
a fuzzy mess.

-michael

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