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Originally Posted by theducks
Lighting is fairly easy to fix. Ikea as goose neck lamps fairly cheap.
There is no cure for poor focus (unless it was caused by low/uneven light ).
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It's hard to get bright, even lighting from cheap indoor lamps. Bright means bringing the lamp close, which results in uneven brightness over something as large as an open book (which really stands out in pictures). Sunlight is probably better than household lamps, as long as you can tilt the surface your photographing so that there is no specular reflection off the pages back up towards the camera.
It's strange that they didn't just fix the focus at the right distance in the cameras. The rig keeps the pages at a constant distance. Perhaps you're right about the light level being a problem. Maybe the aperture had to be open wide to collect enough light, and that meant a low depth of field in the pictures. It's hard to believe that they're selling something that produces such bad results.