Phil, TNA do not allow tripods at all - even table mounted ones. Some other ROs do though - Surrey for instance and Bromley Local Studies will even provide one. On the topic of photography in ROs, I was at Berks RO at Reading today and they charge £2 per shot - good job that I didn't want to tale the 70 pictures that I did at TNA on Monday!! Peter Park. Walton on Thames, Surrey, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Warn" <philwarn@ntlworld.com> To: <SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 7:04 PM Subject: [SoG] Scanning an old book > Hi folks, > > Thank you for your thoughts, so far. > > I was intending to buy a desk top stand in order to hold the digital camera. > > It comes with a remote control which would cut out camera "wobble" > > It is an Olympus (mu) 410 which I chose because of its long life Li battery. > > Given it has a tripod threading, I wanted to avoid using anything which TNA > or any other repository would ban as being a tripod. > > It strikes me that they ban tripods as they could be tripped over! > > The Health & Safety Acts, etc, I guess. > > A table top "holder" which screws into the camera, would perhaps be allowed? > > When the lens is pointing downwards over a document, the thread is > horizontal, or rather something screwed into would be. > > I visualise some sort of g shape device like a lamp standard with a > heavyish base. > > I would talk to TNA staff etc before parting with my "readies" > > The Olympus allows me to switch to black/white or rather gray scales, so > that should reduce the resultant image size on the XD card. > > Many thanks, all > > Phil > > > >