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Using the Canon EOS 5D Digital Camera for Manuscript Digitization

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Library (HMML) is using the Canon 5D digital single-lens-reflex camera. The instructions outlined here should only be needed if the camera's settings have been ...

 

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Using the Canon EOS 5D Digital Camera for Manuscript Digitization Using the Canon EOS 5D Digital Camera for Manuscript Digitization August 2, 2007Wayne Torborg, Director of Imaging, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) is using the Canon 5D digital single-lens-reflex camera as a primary tool in the digitization of manuscripts.

This document outlines the camera settings and workflow procedures for the photography of manuscript pages. Note to User The Canon 5D is a complex piece of photographic equipment designed to handle a wide variety of tasks. This guide is not intended to be a replacement for Canons comprehensive user manual (supplied with the camera). Users who desire to know and understand all the controls and settings of the 5D should read the Canon user manual.

Getting to Know the Canon 5D The 5D is a digital single-lens-reflex (SLR) camera resembling a conventional film camera. It can be fitted with a huge array of interchangeable lenses and other accessories. It also offers the user a bewildering array of menus, buttons, switches and settings. These are explained in detail in the cameras user manual.

Fortunately, HMML camera technicians need only concern themselves with the controls needed for manuscript photography, many of which are set using computer software. In preparation for digitization projects, HMML generally sets up the camera prior to sending it to a project location. In any case, it is goodfor users of the camera to know how to do this themselves.

Canon EOS 5D Digital SLR Camera. Shown with 50mm macro lens. Choice of LensThe Canon 50mm macro lens is the standard camera lens used by HMML to photograph manuscript pages. It is a fixed-focal-length lens (sometimes referred to a prime lens) of very high quality that can focus on object ranging from infinity to about 20cm from the focal plane of the camera.

In practice, this means that of23 the lens can focus on and fill the frame with an object ...

 

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