[Reader-users] Determining The Correct Tilt: Was RE: my mom's letter

Tue Nov 6 08:20:10 CST 2007

Hi Pam;

Cindy did a great job, but I want to say a little more.  What made you
think of tilting the camera in the first place?  Is it a problem you are
trying to correct or did someone tell you that you needed to tilt the
camera?  
The less tilt, the better the clerity.  When a camera man takes a
picture, he either holds the camera or puts it on a tripod to take a
picture.  He wants direct focus on his picture.  If he tilts the camera
down towards the grownd, he might lose some of the top of his picture
and also the lower part of the picture might be darker due to shaddows.
When we take a picture of a document, we want even clerity from top to
bottem and side to side.  
Also, my e-mail, yesterday about the percentage in the field of view
report might help.
In this e-mail, we are talking of tilting from floor to ceiling and the
field of view report talks of tilting clockwize and counter clockwize or
left to right and back.

Terry Powers
powerst at mail.nih.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Cindy Handel [mailto:cindy425 at verizon.net] 
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 10:11 AM
To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Determining The Correct Tilt: Was RE: my
mom's letter

Pam,

The camera is the part which kind of hangs down from the PDA.  When
you're holding the Reader above the paper, the PDA should be level.  The
Reader should not be tilted, at all, if you can help it.  If you'll feel
the opening of the case where the camera is, (the part which protrudes
from the PDA), you'll feel a circle.  This is where the lens opens to
take the picture.  This needs to be pointed at the paper.  That's why
some people say is you place the Reader flat on a page and lift straight
up, you should get a good picture.  I guess you need to know that it
means to place the camera (smallest part of the Reader) flat, so the PDA
is level, then lift the entire reader up.

Cindy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Drake" <pamdrake at drakelroy.com>
To: "'Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list'" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 4:00 AM
Subject: [Reader-users] Determining The Correct Tilt: Was RE: my mom's
letter

I am trying to determine how to recognize and perfect the tilt.  I'm
imagining it as a kind of downward slant, placing the camera at the
proper height, but closer to the paper than the pda.  Is this assumption
correct?
Can anyone possibly describe what position I'm trying to find?  Is it a
steep angle?  Shannon first told me of this privately in a phone
conversation, and I think I have the idea, but wanted to run my idea by
the list to get any further clarification from anyone.  My spatial
judgment is somewhat off, so the more possible illustrations I can get
of this idea, the better.

Thanks, as always.

Pam

-----Original Message-----
From: reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Shannon!
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 1:52 PM
To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
Subject: [Reader-users] my mom's letter

Hi James,
I most definitely shall keep the letter, not only to show what the
reader can do, but also to help me learn to be a better picture taker.
I was getting 2 and a half thirds of the letter, but no matter what I
did, I could not get it all.  So when my husband came home, I turned the
view finder on so he could see and we practiced the tilt of the camera.
IN my case, I was holding it high enough, but my tilt was wrong.  This
is probably the hardest, (though not really hard), thing about the
Reader, is getting that camera tilt right, especially if you absolutely
must, or want to, read the full page.
I've got the letter saved on my cf card and the original print letter,
just in case I need to practice the tilt some more.
Shannon
Don't question the gifts you have been given; just do what you can to
pass the gifts along.

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