Research-Based Projects

This project was part of an in-class assignment for my Digital History course. We were tasked with choosing two different pieces of ephemera that our professor, Dr. David Pettegrew, provided us with. With that, we were then told to "digitize" the objects by means of a photograph with a digital camera, a photograph with our iPhone, a scan with a scanner app (iPhone notes and ScannerPro are my personal choices), and a scan with a CZUR scanner at 250 and 300 DPI. In the end, the first image to the right is a scan of a chapter from a book describing burial practices in the catacombs of Rome, Italy. It was scanned on the CZUR scanner at 250 DPI, which provided us with a clean image of the page. We also scanned it at 300 DPI, which, on paper, is a sharper image. The last two images were taken by the iPhone camera (bottom left) and a DSLR camera (bottom right). While I have had experience in the past with digitizing documents, I had never learned or compared the functions and capabilities of different kinds of technology, let alone practiced adjusting the settings of a scanner to produce a more refined image.