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

I did not realise you wanted to copy the book in a repository . . . If you have no joy with your method of camera support being accepted, you could try the old photographer's trick of using a string tripod! See: http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS/ROCK/ROCK.HTM You may have to modify the method for vertical use of the camera. For example, bolt an L shaped aluminium plate into the camera's tripod thread. Either point the other part of the plate away from the camera, or better over the camera back with a hole to view the LCD screen. Fix two or three strings to the edges of the plate, secure under your own feet and/or table top and pull tight! Cheers, John John Addis-Smith Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England