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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Sun pictures to the Mac II
Message-ID: <505@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 17:13:30 EST
Article-I.D.: mcdsun.505
Posted: Fri Nov 13 17:13:30 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 11:44:06 EST
References: <17300002@symcom> <3192@husc6.UUCP>
Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
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In article <17300002@symcom> wheeler@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU writes:
>Why are color pitures for the Mac II so scarce?  The only thing
>that I have found on a local BBS is a GrayView picture of 

In article <3192@husc6.UUCP> fry@huma1.UUCP (David Fry) writes:
>Color digitizers are still insanely expensive, thus you find
>few color photos on the II.  There is a program called Giffer
>by Steve Blackstock that converts images from CompuServe's GIF
>format for display in 256 colors.  Then you have access to
>CompuServe's library of over 2000 color pictures.  They aren't
>all super, but some are quite stunning.

I have been working with Steve on the Giffer "project", feeding him
files digitized on an Amiga using Digiview, which is capable of
digitizing in 21-bit color (7-bits each RGB).  This costs about
$150 if you have a suitable B&W camera, or about $400 if you need
the entire package.  Not exactly "insanely expensive".

I believe that Steve has posted a few of the resulting 256 color
images to Compuserve, and I recently sent 8 Mac disks full of pics
to someone who wants to upload some to Bix.  I think that the
digitized images are quite nice, but there is obvious room for
improvement, probably via manual intervention during the color
mapping from 21-bit color to 8-bit color.  

If anyone building 24-bit color boards for the Mac would care
to send me one, I'd be glad to report on the quality of the pics
when no conversion is necessary.  :-) :-) :-)

-Fred
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