@Dennis Lim
The photos are taken with a Canon 7D with 50mm f/1.8 lens. The 7D is an overkill for this, seriously. My previous Canon 400D is also perfectly capable of this.
More important is the lens, in this case is the 50mm f/1.8, which is equivalent of 80mm on the Canon cropped cameras. It's just nice for me to stand straight and shoot with the book at bed level. Usually I shoot at f/4 to get the image relatively sharp in the centre.
The videos are from Panasonic GF1 with 20mm lens mounted on a tripod so I can have free hands to flip the pages. Panasonic cameras have very good video quality at default settings. Usually when I choose the correct exposure, I don't have to do any more editing other than adding text captions to the videos.
Why I don't use the GF1 to take photos of books is because the 20mm lens produces some strange moire effect when shooting against white pages. The effect only appears for books, strangely.
I'm probably going to get another lens to test it out on the GF1. Hopefully I can downgrade from the Canon 7D and use just one camera.
@Dennis Lim
The photos are taken with a Canon 7D with 50mm f/1.8 lens. The 7D is an overkill for this, seriously. My previous Canon 400D is also perfectly capable of this.
More important is the lens, in this case is the 50mm f/1.8, which is equivalent of 80mm on the Canon cropped cameras. It's just nice for me to stand straight and shoot with the book at bed level. Usually I shoot at f/4 to get the image relatively sharp in the centre.
The videos are from Panasonic GF1 with 20mm lens mounted on a tripod so I can have free hands to flip the pages. Panasonic cameras have very good video quality at default settings. Usually when I choose the correct exposure, I don't have to do any more editing other than adding text captions to the videos.
Why I don't use the GF1 to take photos of books is because the 20mm lens produces some strange moire effect when shooting against white pages. The effect only appears for books, strangely.
I'm probably going to get another lens to test it out on the GF1. Hopefully I can downgrade from the Canon 7D and use just one camera.