Image capture system for a digital holographic printer

An image capture system for a digital holographic printer is disclosed comprising a digital camera having a relatively small horizontal field of view. The camera is translated along a rail. As the camera is translated along the rail the camera is also rotated so that it faces a target point of an object which is to be reproduced as an hologram. The image data which is obtained by the camera is converted into image data which corresponds with image data which would have been obtained had a non-rotating camera having a substantially higher horizontal field of view been translated along the rail and been used to capture images of the object.