Workspace

Providing a comfortable, safe and secure workspace for a digitization project can increase productivity and quality of images by reducing operator fatigue and potential damage to collections. Proper climate control and security are important if collections will stay in the lab for extended periods of time. A workspace for digitization should offer a controlled lighting source to maintain consistency and quality of images. Changes in room lighting can affect how images are represented on computer monitors and may introduce challenges to accurate calibration.

Optimal space for a small digital photography studio is three- to four-hundred square feet. If necessary, considerations for art handling must be taken into account when designing a studio workflow. If at all possible the camera system, lighting and equipment should be mobile. There are times when it is better to move the studio to the collection rather than the other way around.