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To: Starlight who wrote (13484)	8/1/2000 8:21:40 PM
From: Michael Kim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

I have begun using the 950 as a pocket scanner for making copies of documents. The Coolpix 950 is 2.11 mp right? I've gotta try this. How's the legibility with a document? I'm trying to justify getting a digital camera, but so far I haven't come up with enough good reasons to have one How 'bout: 1) You are long in SNDK and need something to use your stockpile of CF cards. 2) You hate paying for bad pictures 3) You hate it when everyone says "Oh, that's a great picture, can you make a copy and send it to me?" because that means you have to do #4... 4) You're tired of having to drive to the drugstore/grocery store/Costco/One-hour Photo place/etc. to drop off your pictures. 5) You are running out of room to store all those gradually deteriorating negatives and slides of your old vacations. 6) You are an environmentalist, and you are against the use of all the toxic chemicals involved in film-based photo processing. 7) You want to take naked pictures of your boyfriend but don't want everyone at the lab to see them. (g) The list goes on and on... Man, it's hot today!

To: Starlight who wrote (13484)	8/1/2000 8:47:32 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Betty, using the Nikon 950 as a scanner is only possible because the camera has a macro lens that allows focusing very close up. To give you an idea of what I actually do, I place the camera lens about a foot from the text to be scanned and then use the zoom to get the image I want on the whole frame. The two open pages in a case book are approximately 12 inches wide by 8 inches high. The resolution of the image when viewed on a computer screeen is entirely satisfactory. But the key here is that macro lens. Art