Photographing Microfiche

[Hasher]

Hi Guys.

Wasn't sure which forum to to post this, so Admins feel free to move. I have many microfiche I would like to photograph so I could put on my computer and share .
For those who don't know a Microfiche is a Film card with many reduced images of pages , They used them in the past to distribute anything from manuals to genology and research papers. Normal you used a viewer which is a type of projector to access the data.

A microfiche is a sheet of flat film, 105 × 148 mm in size, the same size as the international standard for paper size ISO A6. It carries a matrix of microimages



I am looking at ways to photograph these. A flatbed scanner will not work.

One idea was to use a original viewer and photograph the screen. Something like what can be seen below in the video. I contacted the guy who made this rig and he said "fiche quality was impacted by distortions and contrast of the fiche reader screen, where the fotos where taken from"
Could I replace the original plastic with frosted glass or something ? Looking for ideas what to project it onto. From that point it would be like photographing a glass plate.

If you use a macro lens focusing seem the issue , It becomes a very time consuming task

Hoping someone has ideas on how this could be done

 

[RAZKY]

Hi Guys.

Wasn't sure which forum to to post this, so Admins feel free to move. I have many microfiche I would like to photograph so I could put on my computer and share .
For those who don't know a Microfiche is a Film card with many reduced images of pages , They used them in the past to distribute anything from manuals to genology and research papers. Normal you used a viewer which is a type of projector to access the data.

A microfiche is a sheet of flat film, 105 × 148 mm in size, the same size as the international standard for paper size ISO A6. It carries a matrix of microimages



I am looking at ways to photograph these. A flatbed scanner will not work.

One idea was to use a original viewer and photograph the screen. Something like what can be seen below in the video. I contacted the guy who made this rig and he said "fiche quality was impacted by distortions and contrast of the fiche reader screen, where the fotos where taken from"
Could I replace the original plastic with frosted glass or something ? Looking for ideas what to project it onto. From that point it would be like photographing a glass plate.

If you use a macro lens focusing seem the issue , It becomes a very time consuming task

Hoping someone has ideas on how this could be done

Copy them the same as you would any other size slide or negative.

 

[webestang64]

At my lab we send people to the link below as scanning those are a PITA.

Microfiche - MSI - Information Management Services

Advanced microfiche scanning and processing

www.msimaging.com