The actual words used on the NA web site are: "Records copying by readers with own cameras The National Archives provides a service whereby readers are permitted to make copies of records using their own digital and Single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras. There is no charge for this service." So you can use a film camera if it is an SLR. Very odd - what is wrong with a none SLR camera? I shall find out. No flash, light or tripods of course. Peter Amsden Argyll, Scotland > From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk> > Reply-To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:01:11 +0000 > To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SoG] Scanning an old book > Resent-From: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:14:16 -0700 > > Hi Tim: > > At 3:54 pm +0000 22/3/05, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: >> Yes. Many libraries will now allow you to photo pages of (old) books >> instead of paying for expensive photocopies. > > 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. > > cheers > > Brian Randell > > > -- > School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, > NE1 7RU, UK > EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 > FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/ >