Take detailed photos with a scanner.

You can take close-up photographs of relatively small items without a great digital camera, macro lens or studio by using a flatbed scanner. Today many printers are also copier/scanners and you can use this capability to photograph items for Ebay auctions or maybe even Instructables. The resulting photos are well lit, show the most minute details and have nice a clean white background or textured contrasting color background.

Step 1 Gather materials

You'll need:
1. Flatbed scanner with scanning software
2. Item to be photographed
3. A throw, small blanket or velvet fabric, thick enough to block light and large enough to cover the scanner completedly.

Comments

[Bad Maxx]

I stumbled upon this today and must say I'm a bit upset. Not at you but myself for not realizing what I had when I too scanned a dime several years back! Since doing so I never gave it a second thought, in the meantime I've been frustrated repeatedly when trying to take detailed pictures of small items. This includes just in the last month macro pics for eBay, a gunsmith, and a computer repair guy wanting pictures of solder I did! THANK YOU!

[merumore]

Glad it helped. It's hard to get those detailed shots unless you have a special camera lens.

[Creativeman]

Nice instructable!  Will keep this in mind for sure. Cman

[merumore]

Thank you.  It's something I tried as an experiment and have found helpful when you need a very detailed shot.