--- John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com> wrote:
> At 08:06 PM 4/13/01 -0400, somebody else wrote:
> > That's how the DigiView works on the Amiga, though instead of the
> > supplied color wheel and a video camera to capture the images I use a good
> > quality VCR or 8mm camcorder, good quality cables, and a color splitter.
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.
> Once being a Cool Friend of NewTek, I have in my collection
> an *un-potted* DigiView from the production line. All others
> were chip-sanded and epoxy-potted. I've also been in the
> garage where it was invented.
That's a neat artifact. So... tell us... what chips _did_ they use?
I have a fun toy that's good for the _other_ way - a Polaroid video
image copy unit - it has a RAM capture buffer (just hit "freeze"), a
B&W video tube (no shadow mask, so nice, sharp output image) a color wheel,
just like a DigiView, and a quick disconnect camera - one Polaroid (uses
expensive medical imaging film), one 35mm (loves ASA 100 slide film). It
takes >5 seconds to run the color wheel and snap all four pictures. I've
used it mostly to make my own slides on the Amiga for lectures. Got most
of it at the Dayton Hamfest three or four years ago. It had the 35mm
camera and no control panel. I picked another one up, with the Polaroid
camera, from a A/V surplus dealer, just to get the control panel. Now if
only I could find a source of the Polaroid film below $20/pack.
-ethan
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Received on Mon Apr 16 2001 - 08:33:48 BST