[TheForge] Photographs (YAK)

[Chris Worsley]

Norm,
This camera should work just fine for your application. Practice, 
practice, practice.
About building a stand, they have done that for you already......use a 
tripod.
The camera does not care if the book is lying down or leaning against 
something.

Chris

larbooks at impulse.net wrote:

>My daughter bought a new digital camera and gave me her old 
>Canon Power Shot S30.  I've been thinking that I could use this 
>camera to take pictures of the covers of the books that I sell for use 
>in a catalog as well as a website.  I'd think the camera could take 
>color as well a black and white photos with the necessary 
>resolution.
>
>I've been thinking of making a stand to hold the camera over the  
>book cover to take the picture and then loading the pictures into my 
>computer for use.  
>
>I could also scan the covers with a scanner.  Guess what I'm 
>interested in finding out is if using a digital camera to take pictures 
>of book covers for publication in a printed catalog and on a website 
>is a good application.  Thanks for your help and sorry for the 
>intrusion.
>
>Norm Larson Books
>
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