2009/3/4 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/3/4 geni geniice@gmail.com:
Getting access to existing collections and permission to make copies of them (county archives will generaly photocopy stuff for you but they won't let you point a camera at the stuff) is a more significant issue at this point.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sun-Glasses-Camera-with-2GB-Flash-Memory-+Micro-SD-Slo...
Now to work out how to make it a tax deduction!
- d.
Sneaking in a camera would not be a problem if I felt like doing that but I have standards. What bugs me is the restriction is so irrational.
It's not a matter of protecting the documents. I was allowed to handle them without wearing gloves, they were fairly robust (19th century1:500 OS maps. large enough scale that would identify individual rooms in buildings) and in any case photographing even with flash (not that I would need to use a flash) would have done less damage than photocopying.
It's not a matter of disruption since modern camera can be pretty much silent where as the microfilm machines people were useing were rather noisy.
It may be a matter of control since there are conditions on what you can do with the photocopies and when a few years back I asked them about CC release I wasn't able to get a straight answer.
Annoying.