Do you ever use your camera to help you see itty bitty numbers, or numbers that you can't quite get to to read?

Clever! I will remember that trick.

Yes. I have also used my camera to view pretty cool things in nature like the hairs on a lion’s tongue and zebra’s back, the eyes of airborne birds, a leopard eating an antelope in a tree, the hairs on bees, the tongue thing of a butterfly…... yep, optical zoom and macro are fantastic.

I’ve done that in the past. Now I usually will just don my reading glasses or just pop out my contacts. (That’s one advantage to being nearsighted.)

No. That’s why I’m glad I have great vision.

@Mamradpivo- Just wait a few years.

I just shine a light on the small print. Results are far more immediate.

Not in this case @davidbetterman! The numbers were simply small, raised pieces of plastic, the same color as the surrounding vac. There was no relief or contrast at all….

I have to read tiny, poorly-formatted, written-by-insane-artists type at work. I will very often throw the item on the scanner, which is similar, eh?

I use my otoscope (the lght we use to look in people’s ears) to read the tiny serial numbers on hearing aids.

@laureth (Insane artist types? LOL!) Yup!
Also, @davidbetterman, the camera is actually faster than getting a light, pen, and paper, then writing the numbers down. With the camera, you take the pic and there it is. Don’t even have to write it down.

I use it in place of a notepad.I just did that today at a car show :)

I use the camera on my phone to remember things. Like if I’m looking for something, but not quite ready to buy, or if I’m buying an appliance. I’ll take a picture of the price and any other information that might be listed, and then I go home and research the appliance and look at reviews before I buy. I did have a person at a store tell me it was illegal to do that, but someone before that person saw me doing it and didn’t say a thing.

@AstroChuck, I do the same thing with my contacts, or else just slide one down with a finger for a second so I can see little stuff.

@lfino Why would it be illegal??

When I was travelling, I had to go straight from the airport to an address in the city where I had some business to sort out. We realised we had no idea where we were, because we just had the street number and name, and that street name was Market Street, San Francisco (which is pretty big). We couldn’t read anything from the 14th floor, so we stuck a camera out the window and zoomed in on the street signs to figure it out.

I’ve not yet come accross a number that too small for me to see, but if I do I’ll use your method!

you know you can get those magnifying reading glasses right at the drug store, right?

Just sayin’

Reminds me of a trick an IT guy showed me at work.

He was testing to see if the IR was workin’ on a particular remote, or if the batteries dead:

He held up his digital camera phone to the front of the remote, pushed a button on the remote, and he could see the infrared light in the camera’s viewfinder!

Any digital thing should do it, digital camera, PDA w/ camera, etc.

Cool huh?

No; I use a magnifying glass.

@stratman37 That’s cool!

@Val123 it had something to do with terrorist stuff, like if I took pictures of the store and the lay-out, then I could go in and bomb the place easier.

@lfino Darn you and your never ceasing evil plots to blow up appliance and furniture stores!

When we are stuck with tacky 80’s overstuffed furniture and TVs brought in from others’ curbs, the terrorists have won.

And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you meddling dishwasher salesmen!

I’ve got your dishwasher! If you ever want to see it again, RELEASE THE APPLIANCES! Washers and dryers first!

@Val123, While you’ve got it, could you just go ahead and run those dirty dishes that have been there for two days. <insert sheepish look>

I sold ‘em at garage sale…..

Geez, some people will buy anything!

@lfino I sold my husband on ebay once. Top bid was $.50. :( Then I couldn’t find a box big enough, so I had to cancel the deal. :(

@Val123, I bet you just didn’t use enough duct tape on him. I’d try it again.