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From: joe@bryans.scc.com
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Date: 13 Jun 89 21:30:29 GMT
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>In article <SDK.89Jun10183056@oahu.cs.ucla.edu> sdk@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Scott D Kalter) writes:
><Does anyone know much about the new camera that Canon is advertising?
><It takes a 3.5 inch floppy and stores pictures on it.  The pictures
><can be viewed by plugging the camera into your television set.  
> 
><This seems like a really neat idea for certain applications.  What
><would be really cool is if the disks could be read by an amiga and the
><images converted from their format to IFF.  It seems they must be able
><to digitize full color images with "reasonable?" quality fairly
><quickly.  
>
>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
>yours until I heard this.

>Phil Stone	 (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov | ames!eos!phil)

Compute put out a small review on the Canon camera that stores pictures on
a small 3.5 inch disk. (magnetic I would imagine). They used it in the sense
of hooking it up to a Digi-View or Perfect Vision setup with the color splitter
to digitize the image in full color. The examples shown in the pages of the
magazine were pretty good. I don't know what resolution they adhere to, but
I would imagine it is NTSC, which could mean they put out 240 lines of
resolution or could go up to 400 and some. For a retail of over $800, it's
quite an expensive digitizing setup! (Compared to a CCTV camera that is). But
with time I would imagine costs will drop!!

Joe
(joe@bryans.scc.com)