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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More Marc stuff, but this time it's an answer!
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Date: 24 Sep 90 19:52:33 GMT
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krag@cup.portal.com (Kevin Ray Grotjohn) writes:

>The lab at work spends $10,000/year on color poloraids, if I can say
>I can do this was a $5,000 dollar amiga, then they should give me the
>other $5,000 as a bonus.

HAHAHA! Hoo-Boy that's a good one! You've got a lot to learn about how 
management thinks about such things. heheheheh. (I just had to take over
for the other electrical engineer here who quit, there were two of us now
only I am left. For some strange reason, they didn't give me his paycheck
too, even tho I have to do his job. Wierd huh?)


But on to your idea:
The Amiga won't have as high a resolution as the photographs do. So you will
lose a lot of detail by using the Amiga. and more when trying to print it out
on a color printer. Most printers only have 4 colors and they have to dither
the output to get the colors needed. This will lower the detail again. 
To overcome these limitations would cost more than it would save you. Plus
add an additional layer of complexity that is not needed (why go thru the extra
step of digitizing then printing when all you need is a picture?). The only
reason to use an Amiga in such a situation would be if you need to manipulate
the picture before printing it (such as false coloring to bring out flaws, etc)

At least that's the way I see it from what you described. What you didn't say
is by what method they are taking these poloroids. If they are using a camera
mounted on a microscope, then you have the additional problem of getting a 
video camera mounted on the m-scope in place of the poloroid. 

[I can't see it costing $10000 a year for poloroids though. What did you leave
out?]


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