Still photographs
| The National Archives contains hundreds of thousands of
photographic images in the form of prints, negatives and
transparencies. Most of these are available to clients royalty-free.
Prints can be copied using a professional laptop-flatbed scanner combination or photographed using a high-resolution professional camera. Transparency or negative 35 mm film can also be copied using a professional Nikon LS5000 film scanner. 4"x 5" format negatives can also be scanned using a special scanner setup. While I am searching through images, I can use a smart phone camera to photograph and email samples of these to the client in real time. While such photographs are not designed to be used as a final product, they can be instrumental in rapidly vectoring in on responsive images. Scanners and cameras: I use professional scanners and cameras. If clients need many pages scanned rapidly or need very large records scanned (up to 12"x 17"), I am one of very few researchers at the National Archives who uses the fastest and most accurate professional large format scanner commercially available. The scanner I use is several times faster than its closest competitor. I use professional Nikon digital DSLR cameras mainly for records that are too large to scan or records that require authentication. Outputs: Digitized high-resolution images can be uploaded to a website or burned to a CD or DVD. In the case that a client wishes to see the images rapidly before they are uploaded or burned to a disc, a lower-resolution website can be quickly published for viewing and picking - once I get home. |