Hi,
Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov> said:
> Until I bought my nice digital SLR last year, my digital camera was an
> on-topic model - an Apple QuickTake 150... AFAIK, it came out in 1994.
>
I have a QT100 I bought in '94 and the manual is (C) 1994 so mebbe the
QT150 was 1995, I know it came out pretty soon after the 100.
> My one real beef with it (besides lots of compression artifacts and
> its fixed-focus lens) is that the only way I was able to read the
> pictures was to find a copy of the Apple install disks via a Mac
> friend - Apple apparently included some 3rd-party software on the
> disks that prevents them from making the disks available for free
> download from Apple's support website.
Portions of the software are copyright Image Software and Eastman Kodak
according to the manual, so that could be the reason.
> You can't even view the
> pictures in their native format unless you've loaded the camera software;
> they are PICTs, but the data segment of the PICT file is compressed
> in a non-standard way, meaning that even Linux tools that know what
> a PICT is can only describe the contents of the picture file from a
> structural standpoint. Makes automating certain operations impossible.
Graphics Converter on the Mac is the answer...
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Thu Apr 22 2004 - 03:16:26 BST