Photo equimpent for hardware web pics (Re: Technico (Re: TI Minicomputer?))

From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz_at_dragonsweb.org>
Date: Fri Apr 13 13:44:02 2001

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Chuck McManis wrote:

> There were a couple of video capture systems for the PDP-11 series, at USC
> in the image processing lab we built one that digitized a monochrome camera
> signal. It worked ok, but even better was the Micron drum scanner (boy I
> wish I had that puppy hooked up to my 11/34!)
>
> You can of course get a cheap digital camera (about $500 will get you one
> that does 80% of what you need) or you can spend $49 on a scanner and using
> a regular process camera get nice high resolution pictures of your
> equipment. Further you can hook some scanners up to classic computers to
> keep it "all in the family" so to speak, take pictures on a classic camera
> (I love the Leica) and be even better.
>
> --Chuck
>

Yes, somehow I trust chemistry over bits, myself. I have, for instance
gotten some extremely detailed scans of reasonably flat circuit boards by
placing them directly on a flatbed scanner. It doesn't pay to dwell on
the philosophical ramifications of the resulting "picture", though.

I second the rest of your sentiments as well, and will get a SCSI scanner
with a transparency adapter at some point. I got this Acer 620U mainly to
test out USB under Linux. It was inexpensive and good quality as
well. There were some patches I had to apply to get SANE working with it,
and you have to get a separate firmware uploader for Linux that somebody
has posted on the net, but it works extremely well.

jbdigriz
Received on Fri Apr 13 2001 - 13:44:02 BST