Scanner vs Digial camera?

rz30 · 14 Jul 2009 at 00:03

I don't have either so working a bit in the dark but i have been asked to scan some drawings(handmade cards) and put them on a webpage, it's a product, now i could use the scanner at work which i am guessing is a pretty decent one but i would have thought using a good quality digital camera would be a better idea, if the card was set with a screen behind it sort of thing, you would get a much better imafe with a camera than with a scanner right?, well it would be 3d(ish) as opposed to the scanners 2d flat look?

For exmaple you could never get a scan to look this good,

So if you were asked to put a handmade card product onto a webpage for maximum effect how would you do it?

cokecan · 14 Jul 2009 at 10:12

guess it all depends on what dpi the scanner is set to (as well as how good the scanner is)

personally I'd usually scan a document like that just because having shadows and other strange lighting in any photo's of the document I took on a camera would annoy the hell out of me (i have poor photography skills lol)

GravyMonster · 14 Jul 2009 at 10:19

At work we take photos of our printed stuff. It's just looks better than a flat image and gives a better impression of the item.

Dj_Jestar · 14 Jul 2009 at 11:20

as above, take a photo

~J~ · 14 Jul 2009 at 12:01

I'm also agreeing with Spunkey and DJ_Jester, taking a photo just adds that little bit extra depth to things, a photo also I think makes the product look like a finished product because essentially, you've taken a photo of exactly that!