well... the trick is to have book partially open not cracked and to have 2 cameras for fast production copy and uniform size on the size as cameras are fixed clear material flattens pages sure if just a page or so a camera even hand held works... but if you are humping pages all day long..... you need this thing! Ed Sharpe archivist for smecc _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 2/19/2016 4:37:12 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, tdk.knight at gmail.com writes: Why does someone just take a photo with their camera On Feb 19, 2016 5:09 PM, "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: