The Canon Copy Stand Model 4 at Sano City Museum.Īfter returning from the trip, I decided to invest in a copy stand. Of course, some scanners share some of these advantages with the included benefit of automated OCR, but there was something about the process, something about only needing to press the shutter release, that made using the copy stand an easy and enjoyable process. It was surprisingly easy to use, and I understood the implications of its use immediately – I could swiftly take high quality photographs of the documents using my camera, determining their style and quality either through my camera’s settings or in post-production on my computer, and without causing any damage to the documents. When necessary, a series of transparent weights were also available to steady the pages. The museum had a Canon Copy Stand Model 4, a very simple device – one would attach their camera, adjust for height, and take photos of the document laid out below. I was well accustomed to taking free hand photographs of documents and to using portable and industrial book scanners during my archival visits, but this was the first place that I had been presented with a copy stand to aid me in digitising the documents before me. When conducting research on documents pertaining to the Ashio Copper Mine Incident at Sano City Museum in late 2020, I was introduced to a humble tool known as the copy stand. Digital Orientalist’s 2022 Conference “Infrastructures”.The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference 2021.
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