Some of the presentations at RootsTech are more on the tech side than
others. This presentation entitled "Using Advanced Photographic
Techniques to Recover Content from Damaged Documents" by Jack Reese of
Ancestry.com was certainly technical. Absent my extensive photography
background, I am sure that the presentation would have been difficult to
follow. I was hoping there was a simple and inexpensive way to enhance
unreadable documents but the reality is that it requires specialized
equipment and very expensive quartz camera lenses. Oh well, you can't
win them all. It is helpful to know that with the proper equipment many
types of damaged documents, even those blackened in a fire, can be
photographed and the contents of the documents retrieved.
On to the next presentation, then another interview and done for the day.
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