DSLR photocopying

This afternoon I was photocopying a small number of pages from a borrowed library book using a rather old DSLR camera. That Panasonic LUMIX camera still has double the number of megapixels of my final generation iPod touch, and more than most mobile phones today. And given that this was a pretty dense text book it was easier to just use this camera. Which was already charged and available and ready to hand. I can copy over the pictures quickly using my laptop which has a SD card slot, and have tweaked them and turned them into a PDF to add to my research folder for the relevant academic journal paper I'm working on. If I was photographing in an archive extremely dense old handwriting I would also use my old DSLR.

Doctor Who and Dundee in the Archives

I haven’t watched this yet. Checking the transcript it’s still not safe for Martin who’s trying extremely hard to stay clueless about upcoming stuff. But I’ve saved it to watch when we get to an appropriate point. Hopefully mid December!

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Terry Pratchett, Rob Wilkins and Neil Gaiman chat

What a fab chat at the British Library last night about Terry Pratchett between Rob Wilkins, Neil Gaiman and Kat Brown. So happy we got to watch that tonight on recording (paid ticket holder). And yes, Terry was absolutely a presence there on the stage throughout.