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Re: Photo people: cheap camera for book pages? - Mr Downtown - 09-16-2007
We always think of holding the camera and shooting down, or ways to mount the camera on a tripod--but see if this wouldn't work better:
Set the camera on a stack of two or three books, pointing horizontally, in a well-lighted area. Carefully open the book to be photographed, resting the cover face down on the table, letting the flyleaf and bastard-title pages fall gently open, also. Now the title page is exposed, and both book and camera are stabilized for the shutter to be pressed. On to the next!
I used to do copystand work this way from books I couldn't check out, in places I couldn't carry a copystand into.
Re: Photo people: cheap camera for book pages? - Phy - 09-16-2007
Why not just pop each book title page on your copy machine?
It'll be lots cheaper and always in focus!
Re: Photo people: cheap camera for book pages? - Gutenberg - 09-16-2007
OK, I asked a friend who works at our city library. They use a very high-tech system involving a page (apprentice librarian), a librarian, any old digital camera someone brings from home, and a chair.
Step 1: Page places book on table, open to title page.
Step 2: Librarian kneels on chair.
Step 3: Librarian shoots page (title page, not apprentice librarian).
So that's it! Preservation recordation at cash-strapped urban libraries in the 21st Century. Hope this helps.
Re: Photo people: cheap camera for book pages? - mjgkramer - 09-16-2007
Although it's not what is to be done in this project, I recently used my Canon 20D to photograph a page in a book that I wanted to OCR. Worked like a champ. Much easier to do and less damaging to the book than using a scanner.
Re: Photo people: cheap camera for book pages? - RAMd®d - 09-16-2007
and less damaging to the book than using a scanner
That's the first thing that I thought of at te mention of scanner.
Most digial cameras, including the Canon line have a close focus and/or macro setting that maks photographing books a snap. Literally. Use the flash as fll-in, and play with the adjustment a litt.e and you're there.