Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!mcnc!borg!oscar!tell From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Canon Xapshot? Message-ID: <3340@borg.cs.unc.edu> Date: 21 Apr 91 04:28:11 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.unc.edu Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 23 In article denns@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (darren enns) writes: >Hello all! Most of the still video cameras on the market use the Sony >standard 2 inch floppy diskette with 50 picture capacity, like the Canon >Xapshot camera. Since it is silly to fee the analog video signal from >that camera into a computer video digitizer (turning it back into digital >format), I wondered if Canon or anyone had found a way to get the raw >digital data of such a diskette directly into a computer for >manipulation? Has anyone experimented with such a concept? Its my understanding that the information recorded on the 2" diskette is analog, not digital. So, running the video output into a conventional video digitizer is not so silly after all. Since its a still frame, its ideal for a slow-scan digitizer, like DigiView. >(darren enns) >E-mail: denns%sys6626.bison.mb.ca@niven.cc.umanitoba.ca Steve -- Steve Tell tell@cs.unc.edu H: +1 919 968 1792 #5L Estes Park apts CS Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill. W: +1 919 962 1845 Carrboro NC 27510 Duke Blue Devils: 1991 NCAA Basketball National Champions! We're Number 1 !! UNLV 90-91 record: "34 and DUKE."