On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:01:11 -0000, Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote: > Intriguingly, the National Archives at Kew will allow you to photograph > documents as long as you use a *digital* camera (without flash or > tripod). Why the restriction to digital cameras is beyond me, and beyond > the member of their staff who remarked on it to me when I was > registering my digital camera with them. At a guess, motor noise from the auto-wind on, and even worse, the often uninhibitable auto-rewind whose duration is inversely proportional to the ambient noise level :-) - Malcolm. -- Malcolm Austen -- malcolm.austen.rw@weald.org.uk