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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,rec.photo
Subject: Digital Photography
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.234502.4783@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 23:45:02 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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I would like to find out what the current state of the market is (I know
for certain the technology exists) for ways to do digital photography.

1.  Do any of these digital video still cameras have a direct digital to
    digital interface so that you can load the photos you took directly
    into the computer WITHOUT a video step along the way?

2.  Are there any digitizer/scanners that can work directly from 35mm
    slides (again, not via any video)?

I want color images to be in an RGB format, i.e. so that I can do my own
processing on them.  I do NOT want to be stuck with some program that
someone else thinks everyone wants.  I want to process the images with
tools like PBMPLUS.  B&W grayscales systems are OK, too.  The higher the
resolution the better.  640x480 is an absolute minimum.  1280x1024 would
be nice.  The equivalent of a 8x10 photo enlargement scanned at 300 DPI
would be really great (from the slide).
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< Phil Howard -- KA9WGN -- phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu                              >
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