Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lakesys!mikes From: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Canon Digitizing Camera Message-ID: <718@lakesys.UUCP> Date: 13 Jun 89 13:29:24 GMT References: <3942@eos.UUCP> <17367@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lines: 37 In article <17367@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk) writes: >In article <3942@eos.UUCP> phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone) writes: >>I have heard from a trusted source that this camera stores ANALOG images >>on the floppy - no digitization is done. My thoughts were the same as >[...] >Kodak brought their new system for us to look at a couple of months ago. >It uses 3" disks I believe. From the info the salesman presented, (He >didn't understand my questions), I figured that it has to be stored >analog also. They have a pretty neat system - complete with modem >picture transfer & fancy software for a PC. Told him they ought to have >it hooked to an Amiga. He didn't know what an Amiga was either. Well, the fact that it stores the images in analog isn't necessarily a total loss, since the original image source is analog; actually, I would venture a guess that the image is stored in a hybrid of analog & digital means. That is, since the image sensor in the camera is a pixel-oriented device, it puts out an "analog" level of the color information for each of its pixel sensors. Maybe this information is stored on the disk, but can still be resolved to the pixel level, but the color & intensity information could be off a bit because of the analog recording & playback. This would be better than pure analog recording, no? (Note: the above conjecture is totally my own; I don't claim to know much about the technology of Still Video recording, as I believe it's called, except for what I've read in a few product liturature blurbs I've seen. One additional note: if the system features "modem picture transfer", as stated above, then some means of digitizing the information [assuming that it's stored in analog form] must exist, since most modems I know about work best with digital data!! Also, the printers that are supplied with these systems [at least the Canon color inkjet one I saw] has a Centronix connector on the back, and looks like it would be a dynamite printer for an Amiga, even without the Still Video camera! I'll post more information about it if anyone is interested.) -- - Mike Shawaluk (mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com OR ...!uunet!marque!lakesys!mikes) "Where were you on the night of August 12?"