Hi James
This was more about the sharing than the digitisation, but a few years ago I did a small project as part of a course to put a few badges from my personal collection online:
www.badegearchive.org
-- I managed to get reasonable hi-res images of the badges with a digital camera -- but getting diffuse lighting was definitely the hardest part.
Danny
> On 24 Oct 2014, at 09:54, "James Morley" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> On my way to Mozilla Festival and a crazy Friday question popped into my
> head!
>
> Has anyone experimented with low budget digitisation, based on things like
> webcams, mobile phones, Raspberry Pi, or any other home diy type kit? I'm
> not talking preservation quality, I'm talking get your family photographs
> and small keepsakes online for sharing and crowdsourcing.
>
> Yes, decent enough scanners are cheap, but not so quick and easy, and can't
> do 3d objects. I already find myself posting phone snaps of old photographs
> on Flickr just for speed and convenience, and optics and sensor quality is
> increasing all the time. Lighting is key, but low energy led strips are
> great!
>
> On the software side, with browser based technology like webRTC -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC - combined with some phones and webcams
> now offering 4k (not yet supported by webRTC just yet) you can start
> getting reasonable resolution from an integrated web-based solution,
> without needing dedicated software and/or a multi-step workflow.
>
> Ok, brain dump over. Now bring me back to reality!
>
> Cheers, James
>
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