Posted by Richard Crowley on 07/24/06 16:29

"nobody special" wrote ...
>I used to use a camera ona copy stand and a live single-channel DVE to
> pre-compose nice smooth moves to tape for editing wedding type monatges
> with. A timesaver in that kind of job. But most of these copy stands
> are getting surplused out, replaced by throwing the pictures diectly on
> a flatbed scanner. If the stand or the platform under it has some
> motion control ability, it may still be a useful tool. Or if you're
> shooting actual small objects and not just photos. But for flat art,
> scanners and DVE moves in post are the way most of us do it now. The
> scanner can shoot tighter high-rez than most of our macro lenses can.
> It's the march of progress...

How true. But I am looking for something to use for shooting
3-dimensional things that I can't do on a flatbed scanner. (For
eBay illustrations)

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