Neven, if you could share this with me I would appreciate it!
Thanks, Dot
2010/10/26 Neven Jovanović neven.jovanovic@ffzg.hr:
Dot et al.,
at this year's RSA conference in Venice, Todd Rester --- who not only knows much about photography, but has a passion for it --- gave a paper:
TODD M. RESTER, CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY A Digital Researcher's Toolkit: Sive, Ad Fontes, Renatos ac Digitaliter Acquisitos
The paper was accompanied by slides and detailed description on how to assemble a light field kit for making digital photos, complete with a stand and a connection to computer (you control the camera from the computer). Later, Todd shared the slides with me, which I can pass on to those interested.
We used Todd's recipes to put together a similar kit and photograph a three-volume Bible in the field (a Franciscan monastery). I can tell you that nothing can beat sunlight, and that getting the values of exposure and film sensitivity just right is an art. In the end we just stuck to defaults, and got quite acceptable results. But having a direct connection to the computer was very practical.
Yours,
Neven
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