True, but the main reason they now give is that it annoys other users. It may now be possible to persuade them otherwise. Peter Amsden Argyll, Scotland > From: "Jim Halsey" <jehalsey@gmail.com> > Reply-To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:36:46 +0100 > To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SoG] Digital Cameras > Resent-From: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:36:47 -0600 > > It is my understanding, but based on recollection from when I made my > application to use a camera at the NA, that the use of flash for digital > photography at Kew is simply not permitted. > > Jim Halsey >

Hello Peter, Hmm! Well, it would annoy me ! I get excellent photos without flash. In fact, on those occasions when I have used flash to photograph documents in normal or even poor light, I have found that I do better without flash. Jim Halsey