Hardware recommendations please

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circe
Mar 16, 2005
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My current graphics project is photographing color logos, designs, graphic elements, etc. from antique decorative items then correcting the image in a graphics program to prepare high quality hard copies. Unfortunately these items can’t be copied in a flatbed scanner so am dependent on the quality of digital camera images.

My everloving is bursting to buy me hardware that would make this project easier and/or more accurate but the only item I can think of would be a flexible scanner that could be molded to a surface – dream on! I’ve looked at drawing tablets but can draw better with a mouse than a pen. Handheld scanners, from what I can see, are used only for text and bar codes.

Apart from a high quality digital camera, can anyone suggest hardware that they’ve found particularly useful that would apply to my situation?
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Rick
Mar 17, 2005
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| My current graphics project is photographing color logos, designs, | graphic elements, etc. from antique decorative items then correcting | the image in a graphics program to prepare high quality hard copies. | Unfortunately these items can’t be copied in a flatbed scanner so am | dependent on the quality of digital camera images.
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| My everloving is bursting to buy me hardware that would make this | project easier and/or more accurate but the only item I can think of | would be a flexible scanner that could be molded to a surface – dream | on! I’ve looked at drawing tablets but can draw better with a mouse | than a pen. Handheld scanners, from what I can see, are used only for | text and bar codes.
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| Apart from a high quality digital camera, can anyone suggest hardware | that they’ve found particularly useful that would apply to my | situation?
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Get a camera with a telephoto lends. Get back as far as you can, zoom in, use the correct lighting, and take photos with the f-stop at the correct level. then one, two levels higher/lower. Pick the best of the images and go from there.

The key is to get the advantage of the depth of field from a telephoto lends.
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birdman
Mar 17, 2005
Learn some Photoshop tricks. For example:
You may be able to accomplish what you want to do by photographing the item with a fixed camera and lens distance and rotating the object to get overlapping views. These images can be matched and stitched together in Photoshop. If you use a moderate telephoto lens, and stop down the lens to maximize depth of field (lenses tend to be sharpest around f8-11), the individual images will seem flatter and possibly stitch together more easily.

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