Bill Christens-Barry and Ken Boydston (Megavision, Inc., http://www.mega-vision.com/) in Bill's lab, setting up the 39-megapixel camera back
Bill and Ken
Doug Emery and Ken Boydston
Our pay, HMMM, delicious
Abigail Quandt from WAM with the negatives of Archimedes palimpsest f.057v (the back side of one of the forgeries) taken in the 1930s (BEFORE the forgery)
Imaging the negative of f.057v
Bill cleaning the fiber-optic panel
Abigail placing the negative of f.057v
Ken and Bill imaging the negative of f.057v
Ken Boydston of Megavision cleans the sensor without a clean room, at the U.S. Library of Congress Preservation Lab, 13 November 2007
Ken assembles the back
Assembling the camera back
Mounting the camera on the Contax medium-format camera
Ken setting up
Doug Emery and Fenella France (U.S. LoC)
Heather Wanser and Fenella France, while Doug Emery looks for help from on high.
Fenella France is TALLER than Michael B. Toth
Ken Boydston
Mike Toth, Bill Christens-Barry, and Ken Boydston
Mike Toth, Doug Emery, Fenella France, Ken Boydston
A facsimile of one of 12 pages of the Waldseemuller map
Bill explains the imaging plan to John Hebert, Chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress
Bill Christens- Barry with John Hebert, Chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress
Bill Christens-Barry with John Hebert, chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress; Fenella France and Mike Toth in background.
Mike Toth and Fenella France
Fenella wants to be an Imaging Scientist
Fenella BECOMES an Imaging Scientist
Doug becomes an Imaging Scientist too!
Most of the team, including Keith Knox all the way from Maui, just before I head off to India (http://picasaweb.google.com/roger.easton/20071122_India) (and just before all of the FUN starts!)
Keith and Doug mull over the x-y table setup
A facsimile of one page on the x-y table used for high-resolution imaging (600 dpi)
