Our 9-shot scanning recipe (📸 Scanning Guide) is a great way to get started with scanning and will give a reasonable result for plain or matte materials.

For the best quality and to handle more complex materials with gloss or texture, such as satin, Jacquard or leather, we recommend our full 25-shot scanning recipe.

The method is a straightforward extension of the 9-shot recipe. The main change is that you need to shoot 3 rings of 8 photos around the Frame instead of 1 ring of 8 photos.

It’s a step up in the number of photos but once you practice it a couple of times then it’s quite quick and natural to carry out.

Setting up

When you’re setting marks on the floor you will need to create 3 rings. You can look up the ring diameters from this table for your lens and frame size:

| Lens focal length f (mm) | Frame size | Camera sensor size | Camera height (H cm) | Tape mark diameter ring 1 (D1 cm) | Tape mark diameter ring 2 (D2 cm) | Tape mark diameter ring 3 (D3 cm) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 50 | M | Full frame | 55 | 40 | 50 | 60 | | 50 | L | Full frame | 80 | 55 | 65 | 75 | | 85 | M | Full frame | 95 | 40 | 70 | 90 | | 85 | L | Full frame | 115 | 50 | 90 | 120 |

<aside> 🗨️

If you have a different lens or PRO Frame size, then please contact us for advice.

</aside>

Place tape marks in three rings of 8 marks making even circles around the PRO Frame. You should have a total of 24 marks.

This shows the tape mark positions from overhead (not to scale):

image.png

Scan

Start by taking an overhead photo using the same recipe as a 9-shot scan.

For each side and corner of the PRO Frame, you will need take 3 photos:

  1. Start with the closest mark to the Frame (ring 1) and use the same recipe as the 9-shot scan
    1. Hold the camera at starting height H cm above the mark, point the camera down at the mark, tilt towards the centre of the Frame, rotate the camera to line up the long side of the Frame with the long side of the camera display, then take a photo.
  2. Move to the next mark (ring 2) and use a slightly different recipe:
    1. Hold the camera at starting height H cm above the mark, point the camera down at the mark, tilt towards the centre of the Frame, rotate the camera to line up the long side of the Frame with the long side of the camera display (same as before)
    2. New step: lower the camera
      1. You may find that the Frame is a bit smaller in the camera display than it was for ring 1.
      2. Move the camera down directly towards the floor until the Frame is almost filling the camera display.
      3. You should only need to move the camera slightly, about 5 cm below the starting height.
      4. Make sure none of the Frame is cut off in the display.
    3. Then take a photo.
  3. Move to the next mark (ring 3) and use the same camera lowering recipe as for ring 2.
    1. You will need to lower the camera slightly more again, usually about 10 cm below the starting height.

Now move around the Frame and take 3 photos for each corner and side using this recipe.

You should now have 25 photos and your scan is complete!

Camera positions