[GB] Cyber City Oedo 808 Complete Comic Collection-400 DPI Scans
Issues: 6
Pages per issue: 28
Resolution: 400 DPI - 2590x4090
I have been looking for these online for years, and so far as I can see, they do not exist anywhere on the web,
so I decided to buy the most mint comics I could locate for purchase, and produce my own scanned files.
These comics were produced in the 90s, and only the covers are glossy. The internal pages are of low quality
printing on low quality paper, and it certainly does show. However, the set I managed to find for purchase is in
mint condition. Despite this, due to the cheap way they were made back then, the cells are not straight, and have
some rotation to them. The actual pages were printed like that. It's not anything to do with my scanning/cropping
processes. The colour balances are varied from page to page and issue to issue. Some pages have more grain
than others. There are printing errors. Despite the excellent condition of the comics i've obtained, they were just
cheaply produced back then.
So, it is what it is. There is no digital version of this in existence. Scans are as good as it's ever gonna get.
With all of that being said, I decided that these need to be done in the highest quality, being as I only intend
to do this once. I first did test scans at the usual 300 DPI, and being as the pages are non-glossy, and on,
frankly, awful quality paper, 300 DPI resulted in a lot of moire patterning, banding, and various other forms
of distortion, as scanners don't seem to respond well to such low quality paper/printing.
To offset this somewhat, I found that increasing to 400 DPI was enough to stop most of these issues,
but, it has resulted in the files being rather large.
Usually, I wouldn't do this, but, given the age of these, the absence of online availability, and the fact that
modern mobile devices (tablets etc) can now read much larger files than they used to (and they're only
getting better), it made sense to preserve these at very high quality.
I know that perhaps not everyone will be happy with 400 DPI, but, these days, 4.5GB really isn't a lot,
and my 3 year old OLED Samsung tablet reads them like a champ from MicroSD with no loading pauses
whatsoever.
I just wanted (as far as I can tell the one and only version of this on the entire web) to be preserved at a very
high resolution, so that they will display beautifully on mobile devices for years to come. Given how good these
look on tablet, despite all the issues listed above, I think they have turned out very well, and are well worth
the file sizes.
These are just the raw scans, cropped down to a uniform resolution for every single page. No other alterations
have been made. Some time down the road, I may go back and clean up the images, even them out, de-grain,
colour balance etc, but for now, these are just the basic scans, cropped and authored into CBR files.
I'm by no means an expert on things of this nature, just an old-skool, die-hard Oedo fan, who wanted to bring the
final piece of missing Cyber City media to the other fans out there.
If anyone else would like to extract the PNG images from these and do anything with them, and hopefully re-post
here in the future, please do be my guest. I would be most interested to see.
Hope you all enjoy.
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