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From: d wilcox <>
Subject: Re: Hand Scanners
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 15:06:01 +0000
References: <3BE079C7.59FF9D9@lightage.demon.co.uk>, <012e01c16524$aabfa940$5578fea9@y0k0v4>, <9s3c36$sjj$1@news.tudelft.nl>


Hooray! Someone else has discovered it. Just what I try and do, and with
a decent camera you don't even need a flash. Just set it to macro mode -
which eats batteries - and snap the item. No flash, no noise, no contact
with the original. Does mean a fair bit of work on the PC to bring it up
tho'.

But guess what - how many libraries etc would immediately say - no
photography allowed?

dw

Lesley Robertson wrote:
>
> "Andrew Sellon" <> wrote in message
> news:012e01c16524$aabfa940$...
> >
> > Surely it is understandable that libraries, record offices and other
> > repositories of original documents do not want any Tom, Dick or 'dw'
> > handling them in such a manner. Often it is possible to request a staff
> > member to photo copy a document, for a charge.
> >
> Like most folk, I generally use the pencil and (paper) notebook technique,
> but I have found with special items that some cooperative archivists will
> allow the use of a digital camera (if the light is good enough to avoid the
> flash). Set to macro and on it's highest resolution, it gives results as
> good as those of the hand scanner I tried, and without any physical contact
> (and thus wear and tear) with the page.
> Lesley Robertson

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