Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!scott From: scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: spectrum and digitizers Message-ID: Date: 22 Nov 89 20:17:49 GMT References: <21@spocom.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Organization: Old Dominion University Computer Science Systems Group Lines: 29 In-reply-to: gng@spocom.UUCP's message of 21 Nov 89 20:30:00 GMT In article <21@spocom.UUCP> gng@spocom.UUCP writes: > Thanks to Lars-Erik Osterud (larserio@ifi.uio.no), > Scott D. Yelich (scott@cs.odu.edu), and Steve Belczyk (seb3@gte.com) for > their info. on Spectrum/Quantum Paint. you're welcome.... (Did I say anything?) > I think I should reveal first why I've been asking for this info. > I may very soon get access to a Nikon LS-300 (or was it 500? ahh...) film > scanner - how it differs from something like Computereyes is that instead of > getting an image from a video camera or vcr/tv, the Nikon (and other film > scanners like it probably) gets it's image from a negative/positive 35mm > slide. And at a great resolution too - 4096x6144 as I recall! And at 24bits > (16.7 million colours), etc, etc....Now, I know Trio Engineering (Spectrum's) > has worked with Digital Vision (Computereyes) to make Computereyes save a > digitized image in Spectrum format, but I haven't heard of any other efforts > by them - especially with a film scanner. I have a computer eyes.... for $150 (brand new) or trade toward an old hard drive... I got this compter eyes, and I have sent it back to the company twice. They say it works on their computers.... but it wont work on mine. So, it doesnt do me any good. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------