At the Science Museum we used in-house produced wooden rods of varying lengths painted in red-white-red stripes of whatever scale was required. End of rods was marked with the scale in black so that a rod with 25cm stripes had that in the first (white) stripe.
HTH Michael O > From: Michael Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:39:26 +0000 > To: PRODIG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PRODIG] a sense of scale... > > Sorry if this is off topic... > > I'm having trouble finding a suitable means of depicting scale in certain > documentary photographs that I take. > > I was wondering if anyone knows of a source for Archaeological or Forensic > photographic scales. I imagine they will be something rod-like or > rectangular and marked with a black and white grid. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
