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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / Digital Photo / September 2007Best dig camera for close up document photos?
Any advice on a dig camera that would let me take legible and readable pictures of text on old documents at the library? These are documents that one can not take home as they have historical value..... but that I want to be able to take pic of the text and READ it in the digital picture. > Any advice on a dig camera that would let me take > legible and readable pictures of text on old documents [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > to take pic of the text and READ it in the digital > picture. Most any modern digital camera will do a mighty fine job if the light is right. NM > Any advice on a dig camera that would let me take > legible and readable pictures of text on old documents [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > to take pic of the text and READ it in the digital > picture. Minox B But seriously... I suggest that you look at portable document scanners. They'll yield far higher quality images. From a quick google I came up with http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/docupen/ Perhaps a bit pricey but it looks nice - not bad for number one google result. - -- Brendan Gillatt brendan {at} brendangillatt {dot} co {dot} uk http://www.brendangillatt.co.uk PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBACD7433 I have a Kodak Z885 camera that has text/document mode. This seems to work well. But if you are photographing documents in a library, you'll have to deal with incandescent or fluorescent light, and adjust your white balance accordingly. Bring a small tripod. too. -Dave On Sep 29, 12:36 pm, m...@privacy.net wrote: > Any advice on a dig camera that would let me take > legible and readable pictures of text on old documents [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > to take pic of the text and READ it in the digital > picture. >I have a Kodak Z885 camera that has text/document mode. This seems to > work well. But if you are photographing documents in a library, you'll > have to deal with incandescent or fluorescent light, and adjust your > white balance accordingly. Bring a small tripod. too. > > -Dave All exact same with my Fujifilm s6000fd, along with a good macro mode too. The text mode is under SP on the top dial (scene position) with an according menu and three flourescent settings for white balance, as well as black and white under the "F" menu.  SignatureGiant_Alex not my site: http://www.e-sword.net/ > Any advice on a dig camera that would let me take > legible and readable pictures of text on old documents [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > to take pic of the text and READ it in the digital > picture. I have been able to take pictures of book pages with a 3 mp camera that were good enough to read with an OCR program. It really doesn't take that much resolution, but more is usually better. Lighting and minimal distortion are more important than resolution. |
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