A piece of glass is a useful thing for flat copy photography, to make things stay flat (I'm photographing a curly paper RAOB pamphlet today). It's also a good way to tell you that your lights are in the right place, because it's nice and annoyingly reflective! I haven't yet built a black tent over my table, but I can see that I probably will at some point.
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@samwilson
Glass or plexiglas plaque is indeed one of the items archives propose to their readers to facilitate photography.
Inexpensive and very useful 👍
@RainbowFrog Does low-reflectivity glass help? Or is clarity lost with it?
@samwilson
I cannot answer that. I'm not a technician.
But in our reading room, where the light can be very bright at some hours, and we need lamps at some others, just to read, the problem of reflection is smaller with plexi.😐
Also, plexiglass has the advantage to be difficult to break, which is very useful in a public readers room, where hundreds of different people use it 😉
I know that, for professional reprographic use in our lab, real glass is used, in a solid frame with hinges...
@RainbowFrog That makes sense. Plexiglass does sound lighter and less likely to result in blood on the archives! (The worst I'm dealing with at the moment is beer-soaked correspondence.)
