Donna, My old camera was less than 1 megapixel - it produced images 640x480 pixels. If I'd managed a crystal clear image I could get a legible print at original size - but no where near as good as a photocopy. I rarely wanted a printout so that didn't matter so much. I bought the camera in 1999. I found last year that I'd stopped taking photos of people and scenery as it didn't produce enough pixels for a reasonable print or to fill my new computer screen. It also wasn't good at indoor photos of people unless the light was very good. It had a flash but needed good light to focus. Manual focus didn't help in poor light as the LCD wasn't visible enough. I was only taking wildflower closeups and documents. With the advent of more documents on the internet and being able to zoom in to them to read difficult bits I was finding document shots more unsatisfactory as well. That's why I started thinking about a new camera and decided to get the best I could afford with the characteristics I needed - like being able to carry it in a pocket - and ended up with the Canon Powershot S70. It's opened up a whole new world :-) The automatic settings are giving good photos but I am making an effort to learn more. One feature that could prove useful for big documents is the Stitch feature. You take a series of photos and the software puts them together. You can tell it whether it was a panorama as in you took the photos from the same position or big document where you've moved the camera along. It found a beach panorama a bit difficult to line up as there wasn't enough bigger objects to match so suspect it may be necessary to place a small contrasting object on the page to aid that. Has anyone any experience of this? Cathy At 00:12 7/03/2005, Donna wrote: >Like Kraig said, anyone have any suggestions on using digital cameras to >copy books, documents, etc? I have an older Sony Mavica (MVC-FD73) that >uses the 3 1/2 disk. Maybe I don't really know how to accomplish it, but >I have tried to photo copy, book pages & it doesn't come out very well. >Maybe tell us what kind of cameras, settings, etc. to use. > >Donna