Hi Christine, I'm working on a project to record the works of my great granddad, to be represented in an exhibition in Lofoten in June. It's as Peter says, colour is critical. I use a grey card thingy from Lastolite to shoot a reference shot, and then adjust WB in post. According to the printer guy it works pretty well. He also appreciates that I use ProPhotoRGB in Lightroom for my colour space, and says it gives him the latitude he needs.
I believe the K-5 would suffice for most paintings. It depends on their size, really. In my case all the reproductions will be in 1:1, so I guess anything over two square meters of canvas could deserve a stitchup of two or more shots. For my own part I use the 645D since I can, but I would have got by with K-5. My usual "trick" for lighting is to place the paintings on the floor and position the camera perpendicularly above on a tall tripod. If possible I do it in a room with a white-painted ceiling to bounce a flash off. It works pretty well in most cases. Avoid having other bright light sources around if you can. I bought my edition of "Light; Science and magic" in 1989. Possibly my best photographic investment, even though -or perhaps because- I mostly use ambient light. :-) best, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
