Message-Id: <199905142021.NAA21700@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:07:51 -0500 From: Virginia Kerr <mailto:vkerr@NWU.EDU> Subject: Re: Digital Camera for poster project To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Are you hoping to use a pixel dimension large enough to read any small text on the posters in your high resolution scans? I'd be interested to see what specifications you're developing. For two poster digitization projects at Northwestern University we had the posters photographed and scanned from the film. Since that was a couple of years ago (1996-7), we've recently considered a new poster project using a digital camera. But we're put off by the pixel dimensions required to capture all text from something the size of an average poster.-- Virginia Kerr
World War II Posters from Northwestern University Library http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/ Posters from the Herskovits Library of African Studies http://www.library.nwu.edu/africana/collections/posters/
At 04:38 PM 5/13/99 -0600, you wrote: > I am looking for the best, but reasonably priced, digital camera
> (preferably $1,000 or less) to capture images of (for access purposes
> only) the McCormick-International Harvester Co. posters we will be
> physically preserving and storing.
>
> I would like to find a reasonably priced camera that will give us the
> highest quality image currently available.
>
> Anyone compared digital cameras recently? Are there guidelines for
> comparing digital cameras? What should I be looking for? Could
> anyone help me cut to a manageable one or few cameras to compare and
> select among?
>
> Thanks, in advance.
>
> Sharlane Grant
> Preservation Officer
> State Historical Society of Wisconsin
> mailto:st.grant@ccmail.adp.wisc.edu
> 608/264-6474
>
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