--- Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Monday, April 16, 2001, at 09:33 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > Nice if you've got a color splitter, but doesn't a B&W camera produce a
> > crisper image than a color camera? That only matters for print
> > digitizing,
> > of course. You would have been able to digitize video stills, which was
> > a big deal back then.
>
> The cameras intended for use with the DigiView's colorwheel were
> B&W
When I mentioned "video stills", I meant that it was something he could do
special because he had a color splitter, not just because he had a Digiview.
I remember that the standard camera used with it was B&W. I had one back
then (always wanted the DigiDroid). Still have it somewhere. That's why I
made the distinction between print and video imageing. Sorry if I was verbally
ambiguous.
> Considering that it's captures were done in 4096 colors, it was
> pretty advanced for it's time. Other than expensive high-end stuff, few
> video cards were even capable of displaying to that depth.
Unless you had an Amiga. :-) I don't think I got 16-bit color on a PeeCee
until 1996. A video card with >256K was too expensive for my tastes.
> It would be nearly two years before the PS/2 would introduce VGA and it's
> 256 color mode in the same resolution.
That's what we used to use as an argument for why it was better to own an
Amiga than a PC at home in 1986. The general response was, "so what; who
needs colors for a spreadsheet or a text file; that's just for games". This,
like so many other cool technologies that were invented elsewhere than the PC
world, was disdained by the mainstream until they could get it; then it was
the latest cool thing (stereo sound, video animation that didn't judder,
networking built-in by default (Mac/LocalTalk), GUI/mouse included by default
(Amiga/Mac/some Ataris), video coprocessor/graphics accelerator, 3.5" floppies,
common peripheral bus (ADB before USB), >640K RAM (wait... they _did_ want that
before they could get it ;-), Plug-n-Play not Plug-n-Pray (Amiga AUTOCONFIG),
bootable CD-ROM (Mac, SPARC, etc.)
I'm sure I missed some.
-ethan
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Received on Mon Apr 16 2001 - 13:58:50 BST