Plus with an Optacon, you can stop where you are, put something light on the
cable, answer, phone, etc, then go right back to where you were reading
without having to scramble for it.
"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're probably right." Henry Ford.
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa-maree" <lisa_maree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 10:09 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Training TipHi, Sarah,
Hi Sarah,
It will change your life, and give you access to everything, the only
difficulty I found was handwritten things, but some have got round that
too. It opens up a new world, and as you feel more confident, you will
experiment on what you can read with it.
-----Original Message-----
From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel Tonge
Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2015 9:04 AM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Training TipHi, Sarah,
It is so exciting to see someone new just starting with the Optacon.
You will be able to read things that you can't with a scanner, because
with a scanner the characters have to be pretty close to what it considers
normal, whereas with the Optacon, you can use your own judgment in
interpreting the characters. Best of luck, and congratulations!
On 7/8/15, Carolyn Arnold <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sarah, the bottom knob is the one that adjusts the thickness orto view the list archives, go to:
sharpness of
the
characters, so that would be threshold. It's arrow is pointing in a
leftward direction. The top knob is the intensity, and it's arrow
points toward the right. So the threshold arrow is more on the 9 to 7
o'clock position of the clock, or there abouts, according to what you
need for letter thickness, where the upper one will be from around
12:30 all the way to maybe 4, as far as it goes, the way I like it.
"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're probably right." Henry
Ford.
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Clark" <sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 12:02 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Training TipHi, Sarah,
Thank you all for your tips and suggestions so far.
I will get started with implementing them. But for now I have one
question to help me get the settings right. Someone mentioned that
the bottom knob is intensity (and therefore top is threshhold), and
someone else said the bottom knob is threshhold, so I am wondering
which is which?
Thanks again for all the help, and please keep the suggestions coming
if you have any. :)
Sarah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 7:18 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Training TipHi, Sarah,
This may seem strange but you should begin your practice with
material where you aelready know exactly what is on the page. For
instance, print out a page conweettaing three lines of dashes spaced
several lines apart.
Then practice with the page until you can:
1. locate all three lines of dashes:
2. follow each line across left to right and back again. Thesee
tracking skills will be a ong the most important you will have to
master.
Using uch a page, you can also practice finding which is the blank
side, and the use of the thrdhhold knob and zoom lens to get the
best adjustments. so that you can read the lines of dashes clearly.
You can also make pages that contain a few different letteers spaced
widely apart cuch as c and o. The Optacon training material does
contain such pages but sometimes at the beginning you are best oof
working with things you designed yourself.
You'll be surprised at the number of variations possible in forming
the different letters and numbers. If you have address labels, try
reading your own address or even just your name. Eventually
adjusting the threshhold and the zoom lens will become second
nature. The intensity button can usually stay at one settting, however
you find you like it.
Be sure to work for only short perionds at the beginning. Try hard
not to move the finger thatt is resting on the array. The tracking
hand with the camera is what moves.
Feel free to write to any of us off-list or to the list itself with
any questions. We will all be very interested to follow your progress.
Best of luck,
Catherine
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