Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!ihlpb!chiodo From: chiodo@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Chiodo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Canon Digitizing Camera Summary: More info on the Canon Digitizing Camera ...long Message-ID: <10633@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Date: 15 Jun 89 02:39:43 GMT References: <3942@eos.UUCP> <718@lakesys.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 55 Check out "Compute's Amiga Resource" Summer edition for a complete article on the Amiga and the Canon Zapshot. The article was written by an amigaite whom happens to be in the marketing department. I saw this and Sony's equivalent at the CES show here in Chicago they were impressive. They both store 50 pictures on a small small 2" floppy of course they can be erased and fed directly into any NTSC compatable device. The camera is small and protable and Canons has a built in self contained playback system (sony's come in 2 parts the camera and a base unit). More on this later. I'm not a camera nut but here are some specs from the magazine (I have not gotten the literature yet): Built in flash. 11mm f2.8 Canon lens (equivalent to a 60mm lens on a 35mm camera). Macro setting on lens for closeups. Rechargeable lead-acid battery yeilds up to 800 shots in daylight Built in playback capabilities. The magazine also says "Zapshot picture quality is impressive, especially when displayed on a TV monitor. Howedver, in order to get 50 images on a disk, Zapshot records in the field mode, which limits the quality of the digitized image to medium-resolution parameters with the framegrabber". The price is about $800 and the article went on to say units that store two field per picture (better quaility cost considerably more...remember this is a consumer product. The Mavica MVC-C1 (Sony's version) has the EXACT same specs I was told at the Sony booth. There are differences in design: Sony's has 2 units, camera and base. Built in flash The camera has NO playback capability and the diskdrive is motorized (like on the MAC but with a button), Canon uses a flip top entry. Sony's require the base unit to display the images, you can them delete pictures from this base (not sure if canon can do this but it might). Sony's has a "continuous" button. Holding this button down will shoot 9 frames a second (not bad!!). Canon does not have this. Sony's base unit has a battery recharger and recharges the battery in the camera when hooked up. I beleive the price competetive. Oh well this is getting long ...... they were both impressive and I should get the literature soon, Send me Email if anyone is further interested. I am not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned above. John Chiodo att!ihlpb!chiodo