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From: ferg@pnet01.cts.com (John Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Canon Digitizing Camera
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Date: 13 Jun 89 15:36:39 GMT
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phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone) writes:
>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.
>
>Of course, I could be wrong, and I'm sure I'll hear about it if I am!
>
>		Phil Stone	 (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov | ames!eos!phil)


I believe its a 2.5" floppy and not a 3.5"  
So making an Amiga read a Cannon disk would require a few hardware
"enhancements"  :)
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