Once upon a time, if architects wanted to assess the deterioration of a building's exterior, they needed a shooting stick, a pair of binoculars, sunscreen and a lot of patience. They literally drew the cracks and shaded the areas of deterioration on their clipboards. Back at the office, they then had to enter their findings into CAD. Now, 'with a high-quality, very detailed photo, it's no longer diagrammatic, it's the real deal', says architect Steve Krause of QPK Design in Syracuse, New York. 'You can see which mortar joints are cracked with a lot less effort. This technology lets us photograph, as opposed to draw, the exterior of buildings.' The technology - large-format digital photography - is one of two being applied to help architects capture and manipulate images of a building's structure and surface. New York photographer Tom Watson and his partner Rob Howard take large-format digital photos using a Better-Light scanback attached to an ordinary 4 x 5 view camera and a laptop.
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机译：曾几何时，如果建筑师想评估建筑物外观的恶化情况，他们需要一支射击棒，一副双筒望远镜，防晒霜和很多耐心。他们从字面上画出了裂缝，并在剪贴板上遮盖了劣化区域。回到办公室后，他们不得不将发现的结果输入CAD。现在，“有了高质量，非常详细的照片，它不再是图表，这才是真正的交易”，位于纽约锡拉丘兹的QPK Design的建筑师Steve Krause说。 ``您可以轻松地查看哪些砂浆缝破裂了。这项技术使我们可以拍摄（而不是绘制）建筑物的外部。”这项技术-大幅面数码摄影-是两项用于帮助建筑师捕获和操纵建筑物结构和表面图像的技术之一。纽约摄影师汤姆·沃森（Tom Watson）和他的搭档罗伯·霍华德（Rob Howard）使用附加在普通4 x 5视图相机和笔记本电脑上的Better-Light扫描仪拍摄大幅面数码照片。
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