[Blindtlk] Knfb Reader

[Cindy Ray]

If you put the flash on automatic, then it will compensate. The dark is when you would more likely need flash.

Cindy

On Sep 20, 2014, at 10:56 AM, justin williams via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Do you need the flash in the dark?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Anita
> Adkins via blindtlk
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 11:54 AM
> To: Jesse Johnson; Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Knfb Reader
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> First, I learned the secret, which is knowing where your camera lens is
> located on your phone. The lens is generally located on the underside of the
> phone in the corner on the end near the screen lock button, not the home
> button end. I was placing the phone so that it was centered over my page,
> and thus, I was getting bad results. Once I realized to place the camera
> lens rather than the phone over the center, my picture improved
> dramatically. If you place the phone so that it is portrait on a page that
> is aligned in the same portrait way, in other words, place the page as if it
> were going to be read in the normal way you would read a page in a book and
> place the phone so that it, if it were really a book, were going to be read
> in the same way, then you have them both portrait. Landscape would mean you
> turned the page sideways so that its top is on, say, your left, and its
> bottom is on, say your right. What happens in this landscape view is that
> the side of the paper turns into the top, and its other side turns into the
> bottom, and thus, the line from left to right is much longer than in
> portrait since the paper is now much wider in the landscape view. Sorry to
> those of you who understand this, but I am explaining should there be those
> of us who are still understanding what portrait and landscape mean. Back to
> the phone, have both arranged in a portrait way and make sure the camera
> lens found on the bottom corner of your phone is centered over the page. 
> When the lens is in the correct spot and the home button is toward the
> bottom of your page, the phone might feel like it is centered over the
> bottom half of the page rather than over the entire page. Hope this is
> useful. Anita
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Johnson via blindtlk
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 8:42 AM
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> Subject: [Blindtlk] Knfb Reader
> 
> I have purchased my Knfb Reader, but I'm having problems with it. I am
> practicing getting the right setting. When I set it for automatic, sometimes
> it snaps a picture and I'm told that there is no text. It is surely not
> performing like the demostration. I do thin that the app has promise, but I
> need to practice focussing the cameras. I sure wish some one will give us
> some tips on using this app, Jesse Jesse Johnson jayjohnson66 at me.com
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