<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I suggested camera because it has less potential for damaging the document, a flatbed scanner would be nice if there were documents like wedding certs or some such a person wanted a GOOD copy of, or a large text document a person might want to get OCR on, but my suggestion for a camera was because of the quantity. I scanned about 130 photos more or less yesterday, and I do edit as I go along so I wasn't focused on scanning entirely, but I would not be able to get that kind of speed out of my laptop and I don't think the archives would quite go for me bringing my whole work station.<div><br></div><div>With a camera, once you get a routine and a way to hold the camera steady you can snap a bunch of images, depending on your desired resolution (I always go for too high) and if you run out of room on your camera it will download to your lap top, say while you eat
lunch or take a break or maybe try to round up some more documents. </div><div><br></div><div>I haven't actually done this much because I usually don't find enough stuff to make it practical for me to avoid paying what it costs for Xerox copies. Of course the only time I have made it to the archives I got there about three in the afternoon and had none of my genealogy with me so had no clue what I was looking at was relevant or not.</div><div><br></div><div>Les C<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 1/10/13, SAWYER, Layne G <i><layne.g.sawyer@state.or.us></i></b> wrote:<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br><div id="yiv1494366870">
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<p class="yiv1494366870MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Flatbed scanners are permissible, but wand scanners are not allowed because of their potential to damage the records. We do have a large number of patrons
that use digital cameras as Les mentioned.</span></p>
<p class="yiv1494366870MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1494366870MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Regards,</span></p>
<p class="yiv1494366870MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv1494366870MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Layne</span></p>
<p class="yiv1494366870MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>