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mikerault
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 03:16
I am on a business trip and needed to scan an image for use in a presentation. Couldn't find a place that would scan it on to a USB thumb drive so I thought I was hosed. Then it occured to me, just use my Canon 20D! I positioned the image, took a shot and then processed it in PS, worked like a charm!

Mike
Jim G
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 03:18
Heh... I've had to do that before with some documents where I was strapped for time and had no other option. Works pretty well!
DozerLYP
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 05:22
my camera has been my scanner for years, and still is...
Lightstream
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 06:09
Good call :) BTW, the flat light from a popup flash works great for nonreflective subjects. Just make sure your camera is parallel to the subject, flat and level with it.
Mark_Cohran
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 13:15
Been there, done that. :) I was lucky I had my camera with me.

Mark
mcmadkat
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 13:53
I spent two years of copying college documents like that....

Its great!
cskn0125
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 14:10
lol, lets see the pic.
mikerault
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 15:21
Ok...however, this is copyrighted to Gary Larson and is for illustrative and educaitonal purposes only!
superdiver
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 17:19
LOL..thats how I make "digital" x-rays for work...I dont use digital x-rays except for case presentations and taking a picture of the x-ray is the fastest, cheapest and most accurae way to duplicate and x-ray...

Simple is better....
BillsBayou
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 17:23
When I had my home alarm installed, there were two manuals in the box. One was the user guide, which I get, the other was the installation guide, which I do NOT get. The installation guide has all the cool things in it.

While the guy was wiring in all of the numerous wires from around the house I went off with the book and "scanned" all the pages. It came out quite nicely, thank you very much. I'm sure he'd have noticed if I had my scanner running the pages going "WHIRRRRR WHEEEEET WHRRRRRRRRRRRRR" for each page.
mcmadkat
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 17:43
My cousin (who is a doctor) worked out in africa for a few weeks, and as part of the work he had to detail all the patient records when he got back to scotland. Needless to say he just photographed all 200 odd pages and took em back on a SD card.
deadpass
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 18:40
can you really call a 1000 dollar camera set up a "poor man's scanner"?
superdiver
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 19:42
Its only NOT a poor mans scanner if you have to go buy it instead of a scanner, if you already have it then you are poor from it and cant afford a scanner....LOL
DocFrankenstein
4th of October 2007 (Thu), 23:42
Sometimes I'll photograph a whole book like that.
ibdb
5th of October 2007 (Fri), 02:34
Every Canon rebate I've ever filled out was documented with shots taken by the camera. Include copies of the shots along with the originals, and rebates tend to get returned without much grief. . . ;)
Darsk47
5th of October 2007 (Fri), 12:04
I've also been doing this for ages; copies of birth cert. for registrations etc. I've even taken digital shots of old printed photos that I really like - just to get them 8x10 size.
DozerLYP
8th of October 2007 (Mon), 21:55
i had to use this scanner today...
PhotosGuy
9th of October 2007 (Tue), 00:09
It works for copying slides, too.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=58609
forno
9th of October 2007 (Tue), 00:42
Ive taken pics of recipes in books at Borders with me mobile phone camera, shhhhhhhh:lol::lol::o