[Leica] Last thoughts on photographing art.

[Sonny Carter]

I routinely scan small pieces of art, as well as lots of photography with excellent results at the Cammie G. Henry Research Center.
One fascinating project is here:  www.sonc.com/hair

My scanner is an Epson 11000xl with a tabloid sized bed.  

We use the images to allow patrons to look at the work without handling it.

from my iPad

Sonny Carter

> On Jun 7, 2016, at 11:48 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge683 at fastmail.com> wrote:
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> Really? I’d have avoided putting the painted surface onto the glass bed of the scanner. Are they color profiled typically?
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> I’ll investigate!
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> Thank you Larry!
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> Adam
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>> On Jun 7, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> 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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