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From: jat@blnt1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Any reviews of Digi-View yet? (or are we talking vaporware?)
Message-ID: <117@blnt1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Aug-86 10:47:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 12 10:47:35 1986
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Summary: No vaporware here, nice digitizer

Digi-view uses a high-resolution B&W camera -- you can not run composite
video from a VCR into it.  The pictures are pretty impressive, although
HAM mode doesn't look very good on high-contrast pictures, because it takes
three pixels to change colors.  I think the best mode is 320x200 32 color.
The pictures look great and you can play with them in DPaint.  The black
and white 640x400 is nice, but the quality is definitely NOT that of the
dozer.

My biggest gripe is the setup required -- you must digitize three separate
pictures in RGB mode (through red, green, and blue filters) and each picture
takes about 15-20s.  You must have good lighting on the source and a stable
mounting for the camera, but that is no problem for the photographer types
out there.

Now if we could get this quality in a real-time digitizer...

NOTE:	I do not own a Digi-view, and am in no way associated with the
	company.  I have just spent many hours at the local dealer playing
	with it.

John Tamplin					Blount Brothers Corporation
akgua!blnt1!jat					2511 Fairlane Drive
205/244-6231					Montgomery, AL  36116