I have used my digital camera a lot for taking photos. I have used it a lot for taking tombstone photos. What I have not had a lot of experience in, is using my digital as a research tool in taking photo's of documents. I plan to try it out more this year. I know that there are some tips for this type of usage, and I need to review those to make sure that I have the right equipment on my research trips this year. I also need to check at the locations I will be going to and see whether they will allow my camera usage. No sense in carrying it along if its use is not allowed.
Sometimes the copy machine at a repository is a researchers best friend. I find it is easier to simply make copies of all the things on my "shopping list" and then to extract the information and analyze it when I get home. This way I get a lot more collected in a short period of time. Of course if they are charging $1 a page copy fee, I have to rethink that. But in most cases, I have found the copy fees to be under 35 cents a page and although I can write out my notes cheaper, it still limits the amount I can accomplish in a given period of time. I also find that when it comes to documents that have hand written information, that a copy of this is best so that I can re-analyze the writing if something is questionable to me.
I have heard of buying a sheet of non-glare glass to place over a document before taking a photo. That is something that is on my list. Something black to lay a document on is another good idea? Or maybe dark gray is a better idea?
Checking my batteries and deleting all photo's from in my camera's memory is a MUST before I leave. Don't want to get there and have no memory and a dead battery.
We had a speaker at one of our genealogy meetings about digital camera use for genealogists. I saved his outline notes and need to review them.
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