![]() Having spent many hours at the National Archives photographing old deck logs, Ship Movements books and war diaries, I've gained some experience in shooting hundreds of pages quickly. This is when the digital camera is the right tool. Sometimes trying to scan the item might result in damage to the original. In some cases the condition of the material - say, tightly bound volumes or particularly delicate items - makes scanning with a typical flatbed machine impractical. But for documents, especially for a big stack of documents, scanning isn't always practical or even feasible. If you're working with photos, skip to that page, and read that first. Scanning is still the best method to create a digital copy of a photograph. A more permanent photographing setup that doesn't cost a lot.A simple method for photographing old documents.(If you know some other good tricks, please send them to me.) I will discuss: The target audience is someone with a collection of old photos and documents, or someone about to go do research at some archive, who wants good digital images. ![]() These pages are not intended as a technical treatise on image capture. Other times I want to make a fast, digital record of a large collection of documents, so I can use them for reference, send them to people, and preserve a digital copy as a historical preservation measure. Sometimes I want a super-fine scan, good enough to use to make a perfect print replica. What's the best way to make digital images of old photos and documents? In my work as Editor of The Subchaser Archives, I deal with thousands of old photos and documents. ![]()
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