Originally posted by reh321 Why do all this complication - the designers of a good photo scanner, including many flatbed scanners, have already done all of it.
Quick reply - because I have photographed daguerreotypes and collodion photographs - I've also been asked to photograph irreplaceable photographs which can't come out of their frames for archival purposes, not to mention books, paintings, collages and other 3d objects. Sometimes you get stuck with really bloody awkward processes - especially when you can't use a scanner.
I'm not saying it is the only way of doing things - I did recommend a flatbed scanner as an afterthought in my original post - it is definitely the best way for most people to do this especially with non-precious photos or flat documents (I have used scanners to good effect in the past).
The OP mentioned they don't have a polariser (let alone three which you need for this sort of stuff), and that the scanner idea isn't convenient - hence my suggestion above.
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Kurt - yes, a scanner would most probably be far far easier - try to get (or borrow) a canoscan LIDE scanner and a laptop as a base version - far cheaper, easier, and less of a headache than setting up a tower with a (potentially sub average) all in one printer.
Definitely easier than setting up an overhead photo rig.