Or bring your own lights, 3200 degrees Kelvin and use an 80A filter on the camera. This will cost you 2 stops of light so use a tripod. Joe Salerno Video Works! Is it working for you? PO Box 273405 - Houston TX 77277-3405 http://joe.salerno.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Cox" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:23 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Camera and camera stand to capture LP covers? > On 07/02/06, Richard L. Hess wrote: > > > What I do now, is use my Nikon D100 with 60mm f/2.8 AF Micro lens and > > the results have been reasonably good without true copystand > > conditions. It's much faster and more than adequate. Sorry, don't > > have one to show you. I've even done it hand-held. By a window would > > be nice. It gives you about a 2kx2k scan of the album cover. It might > > not be useful for some applications but that's still 167 dpi. > > Window light or outdoors is safer than using flash. Do not of course use > fluorescent light - the colour rendering will be all over the place. > > Regards > -- > Don Cox > [log in to unmask] > > __________ NOD32 1.1397 (20060207) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > >