We used some hardware from existing document photography stands. The gooseneck arms, pipe clamp and wiring shown here were adapted for our stand.

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The custom-built lamp base shown here holds two T10 fluorescent fixtures. The lamp bases were fabricated by a local acrylic shop.

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The assembled light fixture attached to our stand, which is built of aluminum pipe and speedrail fittings.

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The camera is mounted at the top of the stand on a three-axis pipe clamp. In order to capture images without lens distortion, a 50mm macro lens was used to produce the flattest field. This in turn required the camera to stand approximately 5 feet from the imaging surface in order to be able to photograph a full newspaper page.

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The nearly-completed digital document photography stand.