How to photograph or scan those tricky objects

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We have just published a new advice document on scanning and photography.

The document is called How Do I Digitise Difficult Objects? and it shows some simple ways to photograph or scan one-off atypical objects including glass plate negatives, small reflective objects and scans from magazines or books.

Axial lighting set up used to photograph coins or medals

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Comment posted by T. Leighton on 03 March 2010 at 6:01pm

Great addition to your growing collection of guides, but leaves out what I find to be the trickiest of all digitizing projects: framed objects under glass.

Obviously, the best solution is to remove the item from the frame, but this is sometimes a difficult proposition, especially when one is attempting to digitize a large collection.

With a shallow frame and thin glass, scanning is sometimes a possibility as long as you have some software and the time to touch up the obvious visual artifacts that arise.
A copystand and a good digital camera are better choices, but providing good lighting that doesn’t leave reflections in the glass can definitely be tricky.

One non-solution, but often true statement I sometimes say is simply, “we can’t do a good job of it in house with our current equipment.”

The expectation that anything can be easily digitized in-house, at low cost, needs to be shot down on occasion.

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