Random scattershot thoughts on posting pictures to share.
Wowhee Charlie, those are gorgeous Advertising & Manual documents! No wrist-slap intended - these are stunning & valuable resources and I thank you.
A shame they are of too small resolution to be readable or printable.
But I do understand that they are nicely framed photos of the goods.
These are exactly the sort of scarce paper ephemera that should be scanned and made available in a Vacuumland Daily Doctrine Dispenser like Robert has over on AW.org. I would gladly pay $1.39 for the pdf's.
Fred, get on that couch with the scanner...and Robert, of course. LOL
If I was located in the USA I would be more than happy to take on the task of scanning valuable ephemera folks could snail-mail me, for posting or conversion to pdf's. In fact I usually travel with two portable flatbed scanners for exactly this reason.
(Unfortunately there was simply not enough time to scan the information I found in Fred & Robert's Library about my 1940s Kenmore 6 wheel upright and so I had to make do with well lit photos. But at least I have readable materials to consult)
If anyone wanted to email me the full original raw files from your camera or scanner I can do it right here at home...
Regarding photos that we post here in the Forums, you all know I always try to post at 1000 pixels wide so that details can be picked out and someone might even want to save them and print them, well a few of them. The reason is:
When I first joined Vacuumland photos would be posted by the server software at whatever resolution the poster chose to upload but this led to inadvertent oversize pics of massive file size that had to be scrolled right/left to view - but it did provide huge photos for downloading to one's computer files.
That is when I began to post at a standard 1240 pixels wide since many folks have large sharp widescreen monitors now, if not a widescreen laptop.
Then the server began to auto-crop all uploaded images to 1000 pixels wide max - the length could, and still can be, any length you choose in portrait orientation.
I have on occasion turned a photo 90 degrees to get the biggest possible image to 'my fans'.
The mainframe LED monitor I use now is set to 1920 x 1080 because these old eyes like a BIG picture.
Of course, image clarity is not simply a matter of pixel resizing but also the camera optics. Nonetheless, even cellphone cameras are capable of fine photographs under ideal lighting conditions. I often take quick pictures of Store displays and the sales tags so that I can read and remember the information of the cards for home research and googling of model numbers - at my leisure.
Charlie's superb images make me so wish I had the original digital files from whatever camera you used. A longtime user of Photoshop & Paint Shop Pro graphix editing suites I have become well-versed in cropping & resizing my camera's 12 megapixel raw pictures down to a standard 1000 pixels wide, portrait or landscape, for posting. All digital cameras now come with basic photo editing software on accessory CD...any image from a laptop, tablet, ipod and cellphone camera can be imported to the software for processing.
I get many of my Patent Design Document papers by going to the Google Patents page and taking screenshots of the half pages that come up, capturing the lower page half by scrolling so there is an image overlap, then stitching/merging them together into full page documents I can save or print in full.
Just to show what Vacuumland servers still allow us to post, here are two of the Air-Way pages cropped, merged and resized to 1000 x 2711.
Simply enlarging the original 640 x 480 jpegs are not enough to make the fine print readable.
I encourage everyone to process - or google to learn how easy it is - important images to at least 1000 pixels wide for maximum enjoyment to our viewers.
long-winded Dave
