6 Jul
2011
6 Jul
'11
12:58 a.m.
Did you not see
http://www.collection.archivist.info/archive/fiche_experiments/50mm_on_stan…
as you are still trying to explain a method of holding the camera
proper fiche holder with el backlight and camera mounted on copy stand
only loose ish item is mid lens but gravity keeps it still
Dave Caroline
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
On 05/07/2011 09:30, Dave Caroline wrote:
see above picture
no one image at a time not the whole fiche!
My mistake, somehow I thought you were trying to do one fiche in one go!
I have just done most of one fiche the
squint down the eyepiece
move fiche to fit
press button see if it can focus, repeat move till focus got
take pic hold
still 4 secs
is a crap user experience!
That I believe :-) ?But I'm sure you can rig up something to hold the camera
still and in a fixed position relative to the fiche, also held still and
flat. ?Even a wooden frame if you don't have a suitable tripod that can look
straight down onto fiche on a makeshift lightbox. ?The tripod screw on any
standard small-format camera or DSLR is a 1/4-inch Whitworth thread, and
although that's not a common size in the States (other than camera shops),
camera shops and secondhand shops here often have odd tripod screws as
spares or off surplus pan/tilt heads or cheap ball heads or light fittings.
?I'm tempted to suggest if all else fails even a 1/4-inch 20tpi UNC is
pretty close, but it's a slightly different thread form and could damage the
camera if overtightened.
did you notice the qty in my other reply,
6k fiche say 71 images per fiche if we take the rrd53 as an average
and 8 secs per image
3408000 seconds of peering down the eyepiece getting backache
So finding some way to keep the camera still, at a constant distance from
the fiche, etc is essential :-)
If the fiche is on a lightbox or something similar, tape a strip of plastic
or wood onto the box, and slide the fiche along that to move from frame to
frame. ?At least it will keep it straight and and you only have to worry
about one dimension (X) instead of three (X, Y, camera distance). ?Low tech
and easy. ?Of course the plastic strip needs moved for each new row on the
fiche, but a little ingenuity and several narrow strips solve that.
see above comment and picture
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