Whether you are scanning you own work for archiving or making prints from or a historical work we can help you. For example, this work from a private collection in Searsport, Maine, of the ship the Henry B Hyde by William G Yorke.
Contemporary work
For artists work it we have two means of image capture. For smaller works, up to around 20″ x 30″ we scan on a flatbed scanner which means that the work has to be laid face down on glass. It cannot be in a frame and must be able to lay totally flat. The work can have texture, if the work is highly glossy and textured some of the reflections may be seen but this is rare and, in most cases, enhances the image and makes the scanned less flat and more interesting.
For works over 20 x 30 we use a dedicated camera system, it goes way beyond a professional digital camera in terms of resolution. The latest and most expensive Nikon DSLR camera like the $6,000 D6 is 20.8 Mpix and the $4,000 Nikon D9 mirrorless is 45 Mpix; our camera captures a massive 240 Mpix. This results in a huge 16 bit very detailed file of over 1.5 Gbytes (1.6 billion bytes of information).
We use dedicated 900 W hot lights and if the artwork is very reflective, we can simple dial out the reflection by cross polarizing the camera and lights. We can also mange works that are dimensional.