This refers to Juliana Smith's Question #3 in her article "More Adventures in Digital Photography."

Juliana did not use flash out of consideration for the library. There is another reason not to use flash for pictures of the microfilm image--the flash would so overpower the image that the photo would be a white sheet. This is true for photographing any projected image.

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