On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Andrew Turvey<[email protected]> wrote: > We had a discussion at a recent Wikimedia UK board meeting about potentially > buying some digitisation equipment which could be used to generate content > for the Wikimedia projects. This recent email to the EN-WP list sparked my > interest. > > Does anyone have any experience with equipment like this, and could you > recommend anything? Any idea what the price range and quality typically is? > > Also, is anyone else in the Wikimedia community currently doing this?
For digitizing what? Archive.org digitizes books using a pair of canon 1Ds (? perhaps it was a 5D? In any case the 5DII would be sufficient now) on a custom stand with a hacked up copy of gphoto2 to actuate the cameras. Turn the page, click a button... It avoids the stress on the books that a flatbed scanner would add and is faster to boot. I'm not sure how they're dealing with curvature (I think they just may lay a glass plate on the pages), but it would be easy enough to solve using a laser pointer with a pattern generating holographic grating and a second exposure to capture the page distortion and some fairly simple software processing after the fact. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
