Our setups for taking those pictures of newspapers are not very 'high teck'. We have a card tables, and one tripod tied to another tripod that sticks out over the table. We use lamps with those 'daylight', bright bulbs. Our cameras are the small ones, but they are 10 magapixels. We tried putting the papers under Plexiglas, but it made the wrinkles wavy, plus it was slow putting the glass over each page. The picture taking goes fast, but the 'framing' and 'naming' of each picture is slow. The main thing is to get the pages straight in the picture. It's hard to get them perfectly straight. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Cantrell" <carolcantrell@comcast.net> To: <txwise@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > > This is great work!! The links worked fine. It did not seem slow to me > but > I have the comcast powerbooster which speeds up downloads. Yes the > pictures > did stay large when you clicked them. > > Do you have any tips on photographing old newspapers > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Sue Tackel > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:02 PM > To: TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > > > LaDarla and I have been busy taking pictures of some old 'Bridgeport > Index' newspapers. The picture taking is the easy part. It's the indexing > of > > names that takes a long time. We have one year up so far. - (1963) > > Thanks so much to Harlan and Keith Bridwell of 'The Bridgeport Index' > for letting us use these papers, and also to Joann Pritchard who finds > things for us in the old bank building. > > Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the links > work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? > http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Sue, You might try constructing a cardboard border to put the corners in and then give yourself a little leeway on the edges (i.e. have the photo an inch larger than the border of the page and that might speed you up some. David On Feb 20, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Sue Tackel wrote: > Our setups for taking those pictures of newspapers are not very > 'high > teck'. We have a card tables, and one tripod tied to another tripod > that > sticks out over the table. We use lamps with those 'daylight', > bright bulbs. > Our cameras are the small ones, but they are 10 magapixels. > We tried putting the papers under Plexiglas, but it made the > wrinkles > wavy, plus it was slow putting the glass over each page. > The picture taking goes fast, but the 'framing' and 'naming' of > each > picture is slow. The main thing is to get the pages straight in the > picture. > It's hard to get them perfectly straight. > Sue > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carol Cantrell" <carolcantrell@comcast.net> > To: <txwise@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:32 PM > Subject: Re: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > > >> >> This is great work!! The links worked fine. It did not seem slow >> to me >> but >> I have the comcast powerbooster which speeds up downloads. Yes the >> pictures >> did stay large when you clicked them. >> >> Do you have any tips on photographing old newspapers >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txwise- >> bounces@rootsweb.com] On >> Behalf Of Sue Tackel >> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:02 PM >> To: TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! >> >> >> LaDarla and I have been busy taking pictures of some old >> 'Bridgeport >> Index' newspapers. The picture taking is the easy part. It's the >> indexing >> of >> >> names that takes a long time. We have one year up so far. - (1963) >> >> Thanks so much to Harlan and Keith Bridwell of 'The Bridgeport >> Index' >> for letting us use these papers, and also to Joann Pritchard who >> finds >> things for us in the old bank building. >> >> Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the >> links >> work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? >> http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Sue, I must say I was surprised at your description of your not-so-high-tech method for I would have thought otherwise. The images came in very clear and straight enough for my thinking you had a high-tech setup. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication. Shirley in TX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Tackel" <suetackel@embarqmail.com> To: <txwise@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > Our setups for taking those pictures of newspapers are not very 'high > teck'. We have a card tables, and one tripod tied to another tripod that > sticks out over the table. We use lamps with those 'daylight', bright > bulbs. > Our cameras are the small ones, but they are 10 magapixels. > We tried putting the papers under Plexiglas, but it made the wrinkles > wavy, plus it was slow putting the glass over each page. > The picture taking goes fast, but the 'framing' and 'naming' of each > picture is slow. The main thing is to get the pages straight in the > picture. > It's hard to get them perfectly straight. > Sue > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carol Cantrell" <carolcantrell@comcast.net> > To: <txwise@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:32 PM > Subject: Re: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! > > >> >> This is great work!! The links worked fine. It did not seem slow to me >> but >> I have the comcast powerbooster which speeds up downloads. Yes the >> pictures >> did stay large when you clicked them. >> >> Do you have any tips on photographing old newspapers >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txwise-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >> Behalf Of Sue Tackel >> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:02 PM >> To: TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [TXWISE] Big New Project !!! >> >> >> LaDarla and I have been busy taking pictures of some old 'Bridgeport >> Index' newspapers. The picture taking is the easy part. It's the indexing >> of >> >> names that takes a long time. We have one year up so far. - (1963) >> >> Thanks so much to Harlan and Keith Bridwell of 'The Bridgeport Index' >> for letting us use these papers, and also to Joann Pritchard who finds >> things for us in the old bank building. >> >> Try this new page out!!!!! Let us know what you think. Do the links >> work? Is it real slow? Can you make the pictures stay large? >> http://www.WiseCountyTexas.info/bridgeportindex/1963.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message