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

> From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> > Reply-To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:53:25 GMT > I'm jealous then. My old camera (early last year) will only do colour > and it was not cheap either. > The perpetual problem Tim. Once off the forecourt it becomes next years scrap! We/you are now talking about our/my old camera - last years model! I don't know how to categorise my cameras that you have to put that stuff called film into. Sadly I take them out, pat them, and put them back. They still have there use, but Mr Digital is now the main tool in the box. Remember when 1 million pixels was a dream? You can now buy mini versions with eight million. Oh well! ---- Peter Amsden, Argyll, Scotland ASAT Productions: http://www.asat.biz Researching Amsden World Wide Outline History: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~amsden Books I have written: http://www.btinternet.com/~amsden AllExperts: http://www.allexperts.com/displayExpert.asp?Expert=38044 Never dump originals - they may be all that is left after the computer age.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Amsden" <amsden@btinternet.com> > > Remember when 1 million pixels was a dream? You can now buy mini versions > with eight million. Oh well! Yes, but my 1.3 MP cheapie produced better pictures without flash, probably because the large old clunky pixels were less prone to camera shake than the new multi-mega pixel versions. Pickard Trepess