I took a photo with a pre-release Olympus 2.3 megapixel camera (compliments of the rep)of a newspaper thinking that maybe I could use this technology to archive older newspapers rather than microfilm. Unfortunately, there was not enough resolution to read the normal sized print.

Can anyone offer another suggestion other than reverting to regular film and then digitizing the negatives?

I'm on a very low budget as this would be a volunteer effort for the local library.

Regards - Michael Dunn

-- Michael Dunn (dunnmj@magma.ca), April 06, 1999

Answers

If you search the archives you'll find my response to a similar question. I did this experiment with my D-600L and was able to read normal size text easily, and "classified ad" text with some sharpening (though not as reliably). Due to the shape of the image the D-600L takes I was shooting 1/4 of a full page (ie the shape of a newspaper like you'd see it folded on a newsstand).

www.panavue.com might have what you need if you want to put the resulting images together into one giant image.

-- Ben Jackson (ben@ben.com), April 11, 1999.

Is there a reason why you are not using a scanner (<$100 with more than adequate resolution)?

-- jay (holovacs@idt.net), April 13, 1999.