Scanners vs. Digital Cameras for preserving genealogical documents and photos

There are a number of ways to digitize documents and photographs. The
two primary ways are to use some form of a scanner or in the
alternative, some kind of digital camera. Following is a number of
digital files of the same document acquired for the computer with
different options. In each case the document was scanned or photographed
at the optimal level for the device. The file was saved as a .tif file
and the image was magnified to 200% of the original. The images are
screen shots of the magnified original signatures.

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