Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!usc!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!ucla-cs!shemp!sdk From: sdk@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Scott D Kalter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Canon Digitizing Camera Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 89 01:30:56 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: Univ. of California, Los Angeles Lines: 21 Does anyone know much about the new camera that Canon is advertising? It takes a 3.5 inch floppy and stores pictures on it. The pictures can be viewed by plugging the camera into your television set. This seems like a really neat idea for certain applications. What would be really cool is if the disks could be read by an amiga and the images converted from their format to IFF. It seems they must be able to digitize full color images with "reasonable?" quality fairly quickly. I think this would be an exciting way to get digitized images into the amiga quickly and painlessly especially since it is portable. If you wanted to get digitized images of something like sailing you could just take your camera with you, photograph some scenes directly onto disk. I'd appreciate any information people may have on this. I intend to look around in stores for it locally to see what I can find out. -Scott