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From: mitsu@well.UUCP (Mitsuharu Hadeishi)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Any reviews of Digi-View yet? (or are we talking vaporware?)
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Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 04:27:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  4 04:27:37 1986
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Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
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Keywords: Digitizers, Digi-View
Summary: Digi-View is very real and very nice


(I do not believe in the

	Digi-View is certainly real, and you can buy one, now.  It
is $199 for the basic unit, plus about $150 for a camera and maybe
$60 or so for a high-quality copy stand.  That's plenty cheap for
a high-quality, high-resolution digitizer, which is what Digi-View is.
	Digi-View supports 320x200 32 colors, 320x200 HAM mode,
and 640x400 B&W.  With more memory, (512K more, I think) you can get
320x400 32 colors and HAM mode, and 640x400 16 colors.  This is a
VERY professionally-done product, and the software does a lot to help
you get good, high-quality results.  This HAM mode software (particularly
the latest revision) is stunning; you can get color images which
approach broadcast-quality video (the latest revision includes use of
image-processing software that will remove the edge effects found in
previous HAM mode images, giving you sharp, clear images which look
about as good as a true 12-bit plane image (4,096 colors!!!)).  The
B&W high resolution is equally stunning; the software does dithering
to achieve a "smooth" quality in the greyscale images.
	Digi-View works very well, and although there have been
some minor bugs in early versions of the software, these have been
fixed.  Digi-View is a professional product that can be used in
a professional video setting.  (Future versions will do video
special effects, and with expansion RAM, will do almost real-time
video animation.)  The only drawback is speed; it takes about 40 seconds
to digitize a color image; the image is stored as a 21 bit plane image,
which is then converted to be displayed on the Amiga based on adjustable
parameters (color balance, contrast, brightness, et cetera.)  A B&W
image takes about 30 seconds (for high res), and 10 seconds for low res.
				-Mitsu (mitsu@well.UUCP)
P.S. These are based on using the product at demonstrations.  I do not
own one.