Message-Id: <199610222126.QAA23081@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:20:02 +0600 From: "Jeffrey S. Erickson" <mailto:jeericks@DAVIDSON.EDU> Subject: Re: rec on 1) angle scanner and 2) dig camera To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
A note of clarification on my previous message, to which Robert
Baron had responded:
>>"Jeffrey S. Erickson" <mailto:jeericks@DAVIDSON.EDU> said:
>>> Some companies which market photographic copystands offer as an
>>>accessory a "book/document hold-down," usually consisting of a heavy sheet
>>>of glass affixed to a stage. The glass is hinged in such a way as to be
>>>able to "float" upwards and thus accommodate fairly thick volumes. I would
>>>purchase one of these, and proceed as Robert recommends above.
>>
>>The technique I developed specifically does not use glass or plexi as a
>>hold-down. For rare-book photography the use of glass to hold down two
>>pages often stresses the spines and may actually damage the pages. [...]
I can >>say that I never damanged a single book or
>>a single page, [...]
Nor have I. While my heavy glass "book holder" *is* large enough to
display both pages from most books, in the case of valuable works, or any
book with a weakened spine, delicate paper, etc., I insert beneath the glass
only the part with the image to be shot, and hold at 90 degrees the other
"wing" of the book. I will admit that there are cases, no doubt, where the
paper is so fragile that one would not want to put it under anything, as the
least bit of friction or mishandling could rip the page.
Jeffrey S. Erickson phone: 704-892-2590
Slide Collection, Visual Arts Ctr. fax: 704-892-2691
Davidson College internet: mailto:jeericks@davidson.edu
315 N. Main St.
P. O. Box 1720
Davidson, North Carolina 28036 USA
Disclaimer:
"The fact that I've made a slide of it doesn't mean that I think it's art."