Showing lith prints online

Has anyone had success photographing lith prints with a digital camera for online display? Suspect might be better off scanning the prints, in terms of dealing with surface reflections etc. However I don't have an A3 scanner at the moment.

Tom

Tom Kershaw said:

Has anyone had success photographing lith prints with a digital camera for online display? Suspect might be better off scanning the prints, in terms of dealing with surface reflections etc. However I don't have an A3 scanner at the moment.

Tom

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If you have hard reflector strobes, some polariser gels for the reflectors, a polariser for the lens & ideally a colour checker, then it's relatively easy to get first class repro quality. Standard issue cross-polarisation in other words.

I agree that a big scanner would be better (wish I had one for a current situation).

AND I've made literally hundreds of copies of glossy prints using balcar strobe with 12" polaroid (brand) filters plus polarized lens... HOWEVER conventional digital (including phone) photo and just a little post-processing for contrast (e.g. Lightroom, NIK, Photoshop, whatever) would be easier and probably better.