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Posted by blownout cylinder on Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:04 AM

richhotrain

 

 blownout cylinder:

 

 

 richhotrain:

I realize that we have now gotten as far from the hobby of model railroading as we can possibly get, but my curiosity has now gotten the best of me.

How in the world do you copy an entire book onto your camera?  What do you do?  Photograph each and every page?

Rich

 

 

I've done it..mind I had a big 4Gb card to do it on..only took about 57Mb though.

 

 

But, why would you want to?

Why? Because it was there...

Actually, long story short..no scanner available where I was ....

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Posted by JohnReid on Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:05 AM

richhotrain

 

 blownout cylinder:

 

 

 richhotrain:

I realize that we have now gotten as far from the hobby of model railroading as we can possibly get, but my curiosity has now gotten the best of me.

How in the world do you copy an entire book onto your camera?  What do you do?  Photograph each and every page?

Rich

Why not ! it is just another option among many.

 

 

I've done it..mind I had a big 4Gb card to do it on..only took about 57Mb though.

 

 

But, why would you want to?

Once Upon a time.........

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Posted by JohnReid on Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:11 AM

blownout cylinder

 

 richhotrain:

 

 

 blownout cylinder:

 

 

 richhotrain:

I realize that we have now gotten as far from the hobby of model railroading as we can possibly get, but my curiosity has now gotten the best of me.

How in the world do you copy an entire book onto your camera?  What do you do?  Photograph each and every page?

Rich

 

 

I've done it..mind I had a big 4Gb card to do it on..only took about 57Mb though.

 

 

But, why would you want to?

 

 

Why? Because it was there...http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_hihi.gif

Actually, long story short..no scanner available where I was ....

Now that is an excellent reason isn't it.Just one among many I would say.Thank you for that !

Once Upon a time.........

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Posted by BATMAN on Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:50 AM

There is nothing like being able to take photo's of technical manuals including schematics with your phone and sending them to your buddies phone. It is very convenient when he is up in the Rockies 700 Km away and has an unexpected problem. Scanners are very slow. A camera is "a click" and your done.

I was at a train show and a guy took off the shell of a Loco to show me how he wired a decoder in. Two clicks with the camera and I have that picture that's worth a thousand word manual.Laugh

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Posted by maxman on Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:16 PM

richhotrain

I realize that we have now gotten as far from the hobby of model railroading as we can possibly get,

And haven't we gotten pretty far away from the original title of this thread?

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Posted by richhotrain on Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:26 PM

JohnReid

 richhotrain:

I realize that we have now gotten as far from the hobby of model railroading as we can possibly get, but my curiosity has now gotten the best of me.

How in the world do you copy an entire book onto your camera?  What do you do?  Photograph each and every page?

Rich

 

Hi Rich ! thank you for your response.

 

I would however disagree with your misguided statement only intended to be as negative as possible.Last time I checked backdrops and building structures (facades) are used all the time in the construction of model RR"s layouts.

I would stifle my curiosity if it were me responding and just change the channel.

Please rephrase your post and I would be glad to respond.

Thank you ! Cheers! John

John,

That response of yours surprised me greatly.  Seems pretty rude.

What is there to rephrase?   I was merely asking how you manage to copy an entire book into your camera.  There was nothing intended to be negative. 

Rich

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Posted by richhotrain on Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:35 PM

maxman

 richhotrain:

I realize that we have now gotten as far from the hobby of model railroading as we can possibly get,

 

And haven't we gotten pretty far away from the original title of this thread?

Well, my point in making that statement was that I was acknowledging getting off the topic of model railroading by asking how one manages to put an entire book on a camera since the OP mentioned that.  I find the topic interesting because if there is an easy way to do it, and if it makes more sense than alternative methods such as scanning, there maybe there is some merit to it.

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Posted by maxman on Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:25 PM

richhotrain

Well, my point in making that statement

Rich, I wasn't questioning your point at all.  My point was that the original title of this thread concerned low cost model photography.  I think most of that was sort of covered on the first one or two pages.

Just my opinion, of course.

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Posted by JohnReid on Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:26 PM

OK new thread !

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Posted by bigpianoguy on Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:58 PM

One last bit on the subject of miniature photography.

My studies have shown me that an oft-overlooked effect is that of varying the light patterns and sources within the same shot.The human eye, marvellous creation that it is, compensates for SO much, but the camera, doesn't. There's very rarely a truly sunny day; there's always car exhaust, contrails, the next front moving in, in the air, that makes subtle but important changes in a scene, even a scale foot from your focus. Ever tried to smooth over a rough spot in the sky by using cut & paste with your paint program? The computer will spot those variations in sky colors & make it a losing exercise!

And people are never completely still, even dead. They're breathing, moving to what the other guy is saying, got sore feet, listening to a tune in their head...but always moving...so a shadow might get blurred...and the one thing they're ALWAYS making - is dust.

 

Just my two cents...

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Saturday, November 12, 2011 3:25 PM

JohnReid

OK new thread !

Given all the Quote's of Quote's showing things might be getting a bit warm and John is basically call this topic closed then maybe it's time to call this one done...

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