Message-Id: <199610221455.JAA23299@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 07:53:08 -0700 From: Reed Hutchinson <mailto:macreed@UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: rec on 1) angle scanner and 2) dig camera To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
> 1) We have some old (ie, 100-150 years), rare volumes in Special
>collections that we'd like to begin digitizing. But the bindings are tight
>and we don't want to damage them. We can not open them and lay them flat on
>our flatbed scanners. Are there scanners that would allow us to work with
>such volumes?
We've found the only practical way to accomplish this is to photograph the material first and then make a scan from the resulting negative and/or slide.
Even _photographing_ materials such as these present their own set of problems, but we're able to solve many of those with special lighting and setup techniques.
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