[Reader-users] using the practicing sheet

[David Evans]

Dear Will,

I just got my KNFB Reader Mobile.
The test sheet is to help you get a "feel" for how far away you need to hold 
the reader from some standard size print.
You can even put it into "view finder" which, if you still have enough 
vision, will let you look at the screen on the back of the phone and see 
what the camera sees.
I have had no problem taking good pictures with the unit since I got it two 
days ago.
It has been very easy to use.
I have been trying different ways of taking pictures with it.
I try, where ever I can, to brace my arm against something and this helps me 
to hole it steady and at what ever distance I need.
I just took one sitting down in a chair, with the document on the floor, 
between my feet and the unit braced against my knee.
I took 6 perfect pictures in arow and without using the view finder feature 
or a field of view report.
It read every thing perfectly.

David Evans, NFBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "will lomas" <lomaswilliam at googlemail.com>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] using the practicing sheet


> how does it work randy please. is it like a field of view but live,
> i.e. one doesn't have to keep clicking a picture to get a f o v report?
> wouldn't it be cool if like the classic, the mobile didn't have to
> take a picture to give one a field of view report. but it would be
> cool if it could give us a live report whilst holding it steady over
> the object
> just my considerations
> and no before anybody asks and accuses me, that message about truth of
> the reader did not come from me
> On 15 May 2008, at 11:38, RandyZ. Pierce wrote:
>
>> I spent an afternoon working with the training card and found it
>> helped me master the distance for tha tsize card pretty well.  It's
>> a perfectionist in that it won't accept a wide range, it's purpose
>> is to narrow your range but I generally found the distances it
>> reported accurate.
>>
>> I rather liked the experience and learned a lot from that time.
>>
>> Randy
>> & the Mighty Quinn
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: John Heilbrunn
>>  To: reader-users at nfbnet.org
>>  Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:33 AM
>>  Subject: [Reader-users] using the practicing sheet
>>
>>
>>  Hi.
>>  thought I wanted to improve my aimning skills and got the training
>> sheet out for some updating.
>>  Sometimes I got a perfect advice, but when I - according to the
>> indications) lowere the camera, at 10 inches with 2 inches, I got
>> "not enough indicators" or something like that.
>>  When i heard tha one should be a foot away, 16 inches, and get
>> advice to lower the camera to 8 inches, it makes me wonder about the
>> right positioning, especially when using the authorized and
>> unambiguous training card.
>>  Do any of you have experience with the training card? Did you use
>> it a lot to get your aiming skills up to par=?
>>  John
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