[TheForge] Photographs (YAK)

[Steve Smith]

I shot a bunch of pictures of SF magazine covers using a tripod. I think 
an angled stand would work a lot better. Since my setup was held 
together with baling wire (as is typical for me), it wasn't very 
convenient and I had lots of image parallax to correct later at the 
computer. Next time I'll build a stand with angled supports for the camera:

   camera
   /     \
  /       \
    book
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Steve Smith

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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