We don't have a scanner here. Jane needed some pictures of her Princeton friends for her Spanish project. So, she decided to experiment with ways of getting good enough pictures using the digital camera essentially as a scanner. Those of you who think this was a silly idea are referred to where David and Sarah were able to use the results of previous research about photography off the television set.

The first pictures washed out

even when she caught corners of the carpet with these being about the best she got except for the distortions which we found amusing but very bad. There were also some weird background pictures

even when blurred or taken with rug backgrounds

At this point, Sarah appeared and a few pictures came out better

or maybe we just became more tolerant of the complexity of the task at hand.