Well my fujifilm 410 has an option for black and white - there is also a chrome option which am not sure about - camera is well over a year old - will have to try it Ros ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Powys-Lybbe" <tim@powys.org> To: <SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [SoG] Scanning an old book > In message of 22 Mar, Jeanne Bunting UK <firgrove@compuserve.com> wrote: > > > >The problem with cameras is that they use full colour which makes the > > files 32 times larger than they need be.< > > > > Not entirely true! My new Sony camera has an option for grey-scale and > > sepia pictures. I must try it for text and OCRing! > > I'm jealous then. My old camera (early last year) will only do colour > and it was not cheap either. > > -- > Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org > For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org >