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Tutorial Digicam as Xerox

Still putting nickels and dimes in the copy machine at the library?  If you have a digital camera, even a one megapixel or less, consider using your camera as a Xerox machine. 

Besides saving mucho dinero, you get a color image, save time, and there is no need to wait for the person in line ahead of you to copy the complete works of Shakespeare, three copies.

Hand held in room light works fine.  For testing, I used a page of the phone book, which should be more detail than most people need for ordinary text.

The images below were taken in a dimly lit room using a Nikon CoolPix 990 - lighting conditions in the library will be better.

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Hand held, ISO 400, 1024 x 768 pixels, jpeg fine, normal sharpness and contrast.  1/11 sec at f.2.5

Names and numbers are legible, but not the smaller addresses.

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Hand held, ISO 400, full rez 2K x 1.5K, jpeg fine, normal sharpness and contrast.  1/11 sec at f.2.5

Names, numbers, and addresses are legible, but addresses are somewhat blurred in the corners

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Tripod mount, ISO 100, full rez 2K x 1.5K, jpeg fine, contrast and sharpness set to max values.  1.1 sec at f.4.4

Every letter on the page is legible, corner to corner.

 

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