[Leica] Last thoughts on photographing art.

[abridge683 at fastmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Really? I?d have avoided putting the painted surface onto the glass bed of 
the scanner. Are they color profiled typically?

I?ll investigate!

Thank you Larry!

Adam

> On Jun 7, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Adam,
> If your artist friend has a number of relatively small watercolors, 
> charcoal drawings or pen and ink drawings, the best way to photograph them 
> is to simply scan them on a large format flatbed scanner. Kinkos, Office 
> Depot or Staples usually has machines which scan material up to 24" wide. 
> I personally have a scanner which will do 14 x 17 images. The scanner 
> holds everything flat and provides even lighting. It works on smaller 
> paintings too. It is dead easy. 
> Larry Z
> 
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