5th Grenadier to Trenton New Jersey?????

joerookery

joerookery

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1910–which unit is this? It is Prussian and it was mailed postage due.

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A scan should be the size of Brett's on Flicker so a person can look for details.
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Well the story only gets worse–I was so smug and happy that the neighbor had scanned thousands of pictures. He was a college-age kid and I paid him well. Now I'm organizing them and discovered that almost all of the scans are 150 dpi.

Of course I have had these disks for months. I just never checked. My wife used the words “that's tragic”. I cannot even use the scans for publishing as all publishers require a minimum of 300 dpi. So I am well aware of the shortfall. I have approached the young guy to see if he will do it again–I know it will not be inexpensive. So this postcard for example is stashed somewhere in a book. I would have to find it and rescan it. Given my dexterity, this is not going to happen anytime soon. Therefore, for the most part, what you see is what you get for the time being. I have lots of 300 dpi scans but I have many many more that are 150 dpi.

All I can do for the time being is work with what I have. I realize that not all the details can be determined and I am asking people to look at inadequate photographs… I wish I could do better. At least I am organizing them! :error: :error: #-o #-o :pale: :pale: :crybaby: :crybaby: :crybaby: :crybaby: He
 
Joe, never scan less than 600 dpi. Then with a photo program, like Photoshop, you can reduce a 3000 pixel wide 600 dpi scan to a 3000 pixel wide 100 dpi scan at the fraction of the size in bites. But you have to start with a BIG scan.
 
By the way, did you realize a scan the same size (in pixels) at 100, 300, or 600 dpi all look the same on the internet?

The internet cannot display more than 72 dpi.
 
I think I am onboard with the size. I have a professional digital photographer down the street who always ask me 300 dpi in what size. size is the original limitation I believe and if you go for a smaller DPI originally there will be less pixels in this size selected. You can never correct that. You can go down but not up the way I am tracking. I guess I did not know that the Internet dpi was 72 but even in photo software 150 dpi is way too small.
 
Well, the first thing I notice is that they aren't Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 5 because they're missing the white litzen on the collar and cuff panel. Secondly, everyone that I can see fairly clearly appears to be an NCO, with lace trim on their cuffs and collars. They aren't artillery because those are definately spikes on their helmets. Could they be some type of gendarmerie? Or perhaps some type of NCO school and the 5 on their helmet covers is their school unit?
 
Mike,

Well, the first thing I notice is that they aren't Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 5 because they're missing the white litzen on the collar and cuff panel
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The NCOs and Private Soldiers of Grenadier-Regiment König Friedrich I (4. Ostpreußisches) Nr. 5 were awarded white Litzen per A.K.O. of 16 June 1913 to commemorate the Kaiser's 25th Jubilee. This photograph is dated 1910.

Regards
Glenn
 
Glennj said:
Mike,


The NCOs and Private Soldiers of Grenadier-Regiment König Friedrich I (4. Ostpreußisches) Nr. 5 were awarded white Litzen per A.K.O. of 16 June 1913 to commemorate the Kaiser's 25th Jubilee. This photograph is dated 1910.

Regards
Glenn
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Thanks, Glenn, I didn't know that. But what about all the NCO lace in the photo, it looks almost all of them have it?
 
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