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How can I get better results photographing dry erase boards?
As far as photography goes, I'm less than an amateur. I have a camera my friend (the head of the photography dept. at a local college) recommended to me that I really want to learn to use, but ...
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How do I know the lightbulb I am buying is UV-filtered?
Thanks to Rob Hoare's advice on cobbling together my own "overhead scanner", I would like to purchase extra lighting that I can use to illuminate documents as I photograph them. I would like to make ...
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Photographing microfiche readers: Bright light forces camera to darken image
I am a researcher and often have to take photographs of material from microfiche cards.
The problem that I have been encountering is that on non-digital readers, there is a bright lamp behind the ...
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Which image sensor format for photographing oil on panel?
My wife wants to make 38"x28.5" prints from her oil on panel paintings that are 16"x12". I have enough experience with non-digital SLR photography to know that the hardest part of photographing these ...
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What lens for taking photos of artwork with Nikon D800 without distortion?
I'm an artist and I do need to take photos of my paintings with heavy texture. I bought a 50mm f1.8 with my new Nikon D800 and I find some distortion when the painting is big 36"x 60". I used to ...
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What light equipment for reprography?
I'm going to buy a copy stand to easily take pictures of my papers, and also pictures of what I'm writing and drawing on my desk, sometimes also taking videos.
I was wondering what kind of lights I ...
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How could I get scanner-like images with a camera?
I want to learn how to set up my Canon DS4061 Rebel to take clear pictures of a standard book... but I get poor photos with grey background and the black of the print is not black, but grey also. Now ...
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How to photograph books on location?
I must shoot rare books / manuscripts on different locations, some of them hard to reach (monasteries etc.). When I'm there I don't have much time at disposition. I must shoot as quick as I can.
I ...
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What equipment do I need to film downwards over a table?
I would like to be able to film what I'm writing and drawing on a table, inside a light cube. I just want to be able to sit at my table and have the camera above it pointing downwards.
I would have ...
