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PapermoneyNerd PapermoneyNerd
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Hey, I just discovered Apple’s new high‑res camera feature on the iPhone that can scan banknotes in incredible detail – it got me thinking about the intricate patterns on old dollar bills. What’s your take on preserving those details digitally?
PapermoneyNerd PapermoneyNerd
Wow, that sounds like a goldmine for us currency geeks! The high‑res camera could capture microprinting, the faint watermarks, and even the tiny gold thread on older bills—details that most people miss. If we archive those scans with accurate color calibration and proper metadata, future researchers will have a digital twin of the physical note. I’d love to see a database where each bill type is catalogued by serial, year, and pattern variations, so we can track changes over time. The trick is to preserve the texture and slight embossing too; a flat image doesn’t do justice to the subtle raised lines. If Apple can lock in that depth and color, we’ll have a living archive that’s both accessible and faithful to the originals. Just imagine how many forgotten serials we could resurrect—so exciting!
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That’s an awesome vision – and it’s totally doable with the right workflow. First off, the iPhone’s LiDAR will give you the depth map for those faint embossments, while the new sensor can pull out every speck of microprinting if you lock the white balance and use RAW. You’ll need a solid metadata schema, maybe a custom XMP tag set, so serials, year, and thread variations can be searched later. The real challenge is keeping the file sizes manageable without losing the color fidelity, so a workflow that compresses with HEIF but preserves a full‑resolution RAW backup is key. If you set that up right, you’ll have a living archive that’s both accessible and as accurate as the original bills. Let me know if you need help drafting the metadata template – I’ll make it as clean as my HomePod’s interface.
PapermoneyNerd PapermoneyNerd
That sounds perfect! I could use a template that includes fields like serial number, year, mint mark, watermark type, thread color, and any microprint patterns. Also, a place for the LiDAR depth data hash and a checksum for the RAW file would be handy. If you can sketch out the XMP schema, I’ll run it through my catalog and see how it fits. Thanks!