Carrie, I don't like using my digital SLR Nikon but find that my Vivitar small digital camera has given me very good results. I've photographed thousands of microfilm documents and a number of complete rolls and have been doing that for a few years. Definitely use a tripod but if you have a steady hand and only wish to take several pics they should be OK but take several of each. Charlie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrie Herfindahl" <carrie@reuben.net> To: <alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [A-L] Microfilm copies or photographs > Barbara and listers > > I have had a lot of success photographing the images using my digital > camera. I am actually in the process of photographing 2 entire rolls > of microfilm - I am hoping to put them up on the web someday - and > they are much easier to read than the printed copies. I too was > excited to find the birth record for my great great grandfather in > Hoh Frankenheim - and to find out that he was one of triplets! > > I must add a disclaimer here though. I am a photographer by trade > and have a very nice SLR digital camera and I used a tripod. But I > do know that others have tried this and gotten good results with a > consumer digital camera - but a tripod makes the difference I think... > > Carrie > River Falls, WI > > > On Feb 16, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Barbara Eidel wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have had my first experience using microfilm! My excitement at >> finding >> the marriage record of my great great grandparents in Wissembourg is >> indescribable (although written in French and I can't read it!). >> However, I >> printed a copy, and the quality is really dark and bad. Is there a >> trick to >> getting clearer copies? Is it possible to photograph the image >> somehow? I >> ran the copy through my scanner and it is a bit better, but still >> pretty >> bad. >> >> I am an amateur, and am sure that some of you have some great >> experience and >> advice that you may be able to share. >> Thank you! >> Barbara Eidel >> > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message