Carol,

The advice I got from my friendly camera guru was to use a copy stand
set up near a window, preferably north, but any window will do as
long as where you set up does not cast a shadow across your copy
stand.

Use the manual setting if you camera has one.  Mount the camera on
the copy stand,  focus on a pencil to get the range.  Use a cable
release if you think clicking the shutter is going to make the camera
move at all.  Focus and shoot.  My camera has an indicator if the
picture I am photographing is darker or lighter than the gray scale
read off the pencil, and I can fiddle a bit if I need to.

I use the zoom feature to get the image as cleanly within the frame
as I can.  If I can't get the image to fill the view screen then I
clean it up afterwards with silver tape.

I have a close up lens that I use if I am trying to photograph a
really small (2" x 2" e.g.) image.  I have taken very successful pics
this way even on a gray day - sometime the exposure is 4 -6 seconds.
I have also done it with artificial light.

Hope this helps.

Mariana

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