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Not that it can't be done (at least not by me) but that with even the best technique, the equipment you have is marginal for the job. Capable, yes, but still marginal. The D50 is a 3.3megapixel pixel, your best print placed side by side with a printed chart would be the obvious copy, not as clear and sharp. In your case you're down to about 110dpi for a 20" wide chart, which I'd call soft and fuzzy if you print 'em that size. But I've also nagivated with small fuzzy photocopies that must be worse than what you're making--and hey, at the time, they were all I needed and wanted to pay for. I can appreciate that!<G>
But that's also equally obvious with the old fashioned chart books--which were made the same way using a graphics copy camera. You're doubly-disadvantaged against that because the D50 lens is not a "flat field" copy lens, like all consumer optics it is designed for greater depth of field and sharpness in a 3D zone, not a flat field. (Nikon made/makes some great flat-field lenses for their SLRs. Again, you'd have to put the work from them side by side to see the difference, but they pop.)
And the copy charts also suffered keystoning. I wouldn't be surprised if Photoslop (software we love to hate<G>) could correct that by now, again given a careful user. Still, it leaves you open to distortion and a longer process.
But as Galileo supposedly said "Nevertheless it turns!" if it works for you, that's all that counts.
(Gotta update my old Photoslop, there was no perspective correction tool in it. Adobe was always behind the competition in their feature sets.)
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