Good morning. This is my first thread!
I am starting a photographic project and need a bit of advice regarding how to set everything up. I work in an cartographic office for regional government in Germany and have received many large format transparencies of infrared aerial images. I would like to scan them, but unfortunately do not have a large format scanner with lighting. I have tried scanning them with a normal scanner but this just produced dark images. I am now trying to photograph the images with my olympus e-420, a light table, and my two lenses. I have a pancake and a 14-42 mm lens. Both lenses produce great images, but unfortunately they are distorted around the edges. I would like to produce images with minimal distortion because later I have to georeference them. This mean I have to make the images fit a "real" area in the world using GIS software. I have heard that a macro lens produces images with less distortion . Is this correct? has anyone done this work before?
thanks,
Robert