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From: twakeman@Apple.COM (Teriann J. Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,rec.photo
Subject: Re: Digital Photography
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Date: 26 Mar 91 19:16:56 GMT
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In article <1991Mar22.234502.4783@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
>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?
Yes, there as a few didital cameras on the market.  Canon makes a couple.  They
image to a small floppy disk.  You insert the disk into a reader that is
connected to a Macintosh as a SCSI peripherial & save it onto a hard drive.
Then you can open the picture into a photographic editing package such as
Adobe Photoshop, Digital DarkRoom or Image Studio. You can edit your picture
if you wish, print it  or place a copy into a desktop pubishing application.
>
>2.  Are there any digitizer/scanners that can work directly from 35mm
>    slides (again, not via any video)?
>
 There are several on the market that will work with a Macintosh computer.
I have been playing with a 35mm slide scanner made by Eastman Kodak. I think
it is an exellent product.  Nikon makes one, Barny makes one {Barny Scan},
and Microtek is coming out with one this spring.

Microtek's MTS-1850 will be the low cost solution. It will list for less than 
$4000, and may have a street price in the high 2000s or low 3000s.

>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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 TeriAnn Wakeman