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Photographing microfilm for genealogy with pdr-m70
Can anyone give me suggestions for photographing microfilm from the
reader screen at the library? I need to make about 75 copies of newspaper pages and my library requires that I use the microfilm there only, can't take it with me. So I'll put the image on the screen, and take a picture of that. And I'd like to avoid the copying charges which aren't very much for a few copies, but 75-100 can get expensive. My camera is a Toshiba PDR-M70, which takes excellent pictures, I just haven't tried it with microfilm. Any help appreciated lwg |
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Photographing microfilm for genealogy with pdr-m70
"mjgmom" wrote in message oups.com... Can anyone give me suggestions for photographing microfilm from the reader screen at the library? I need to make about 75 copies of newspaper pages and my library requires that I use the microfilm there only, can't take it with me. So I'll put the image on the screen, and take a picture of that. And I'd like to avoid the copying charges which aren't very much for a few copies, but 75-100 can get expensive. My camera is a Toshiba PDR-M70, which takes excellent pictures, I just haven't tried it with microfilm. Any help appreciated lwg Put the reel in a microfilm reader. Project the frame(s) you want on the easel. Take a shot at the projected image. Do nor use flash. You will need to experiment to find the best exposure. Experimentation with a digital camera is very very cheap. Jim |
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Photographing microfilm for genealogy with pdr-m70
"Jim" writes:
Put the reel in a microfilm reader. Project the frame(s) you want on the easel. Take a shot at the projected image. Do nor use flash. I'd add: put the camera on a tripod and cover both the tripod and the microfilm machine with a big blanket, to keep out extraneous light, sort of like a focusing cloth for a view camera. You will find the screen is lit very unevenly. You will want to post-process the image. I've been wanting to get around to writing some filters for that purpose. The camera's built-in autofocus and autoexposure works ok. |
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Photographing microfilm for genealogy with pdr-m70
"Jim" wrote in message . net... "mjgmom" wrote in message oups.com... Can anyone give me suggestions for photographing microfilm from the reader screen at the library? I need to make about 75 copies of newspaper pages and my library requires that I use the microfilm there only, can't take it with me. So I'll put the image on the screen, and take a picture of that. And I'd like to avoid the copying charges which aren't very much for a few copies, but 75-100 can get expensive. My camera is a Toshiba PDR-M70, which takes excellent pictures, I just haven't tried it with microfilm. Any help appreciated lwg Put the reel in a microfilm reader. Project the frame(s) you want on the easel. Take a shot at the projected image. Do nor use flash. You will need to experiment to find the best exposure. Experimentation with a digital camera is very very cheap. Jim If your camera has a "text mode" use that. Don't use flash. Take a photo of the screen, and you may have to adjust the exposure values using trial-and-error, until you get it right. Remember that you are trying to end up with an image that is readable--NOT one that has perfect exposure. Finally, consider using OCR software to read the text in your image files and to create text files, which you can then cut and paste into your various genealogy reports. If you don't have the ability to OCR the documents, you might just want to read and retype them yourself, rather than relying upon the image files to be readable in your genealogy reports. You could include the image files in an appendix, if you feel the need to substantiate the transcribed versions. |
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