Probably in the days that these were produced, copy work was done with a copy camera on a stand, the item to be copied parallel to the film plane, with 2 lights angled at 45 degrees to the original on either side of the camera (so as to eliminate reflection, smooth the paper by eliminating shadows, and even up the lighting). this is even easier to simulate with digital cameras, especially directly hooking up the camera to the computer...
John Betmanis wrote:
> At 11:54 PM 26/08/2008 -0500, Robert Clair wrote:
>> ... i just found/re-discovered several match and le mirror paper magazine
>> issues in the attic. getting kind of brittle, i must say.
>> ... anyone know of any type of scan/upload service in the area. these are
>> really neat ... but these issues are a bit on the large size. aldo did
>> some of these a ways back ... suggestions please ...
>
> I would be leery of entrusting fragile documents to a commercial scanning
> service, unless they routinely do historic stuff. However, if you can get
> them photocopied down to letter size, you could do those on your own
> scanner.
>
> John Betmanis
> Woodstock, Ontario
> Canada
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