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My name is Graham Haber. I'm the photographer for the Morgan Library, a small institution
in the city of New York, founded by J.P. Morgan. He was a voracious collector collecting every
kind of art but he was especially passionate about books. The collection is over half a
million objects but of those objects many of them a made up of hundreds of parts.
Digitization becomes a massive undertaking.
From December 2012 to December 2013 he has made about 7000 images.
We digitize parts of the collection as books are created or for scholars on request
or we digitize whole objects for facsimile or for scholarship.
The two cameras that we have are the DT RCam camera bench
with a motorized head, Schneider lens, and Schneider electronic shutter.
On top is an IQ180 which I can also put on the 645DF
and I can take that around the museum,
I can do exterior shots, portraits, I can shoot three-dimensional objects.
It was clear even to the non-technical people, the superiority of the Phase One system.
There are things that the camera can see that the eye almost can't see.
Often when I'm photographing things and working with conservation,
they'll see things they didn't realize were happening.
We are at 100% and we can go across the image and check if we are holding focus.
It seemed like a no-brainer to work with Digital Transitions and Phase One
because there was already so many cultural heritage institutions
working with Phase One cameras and the Capture One system
that there was a community we could rely on
and they understand the needs of the community.
The most important thing as a cultural heritage institution
is preserving the rare material.
Only a certain number of people can look at a 700-year-old manuscript
without creating a lot of damage to that manuscript
but by having very high quality imaging, there is no need for that.
At the same time getting the best capture, the best fidelity,
the best color that is available.
One of the prized pieces of our collection is the Gutenberg Bible.
That completely changed the dissemination of knowledge in its time.
Digitization allows a similar dissemination
and so a similar revolution is going on now.
It breaks down the walls of time and space
and now it is accessible to the entire world.