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From: phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Canon Digitizing Camera
Message-ID: <3942@eos.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 15:00:10 GMT
References: <SDK.89Jun10183056@oahu.cs.ucla.edu>
Reply-To: phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <SDK.89Jun10183056@oahu.cs.ucla.edu> sdk@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Scott D Kalter) writes:
<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 have heard from a trusted source that this camera stores ANALOG images
on the floppy - no digitization is done.  My thoughts were the same as
yours until I heard this.

Of course, I could be wrong, and I'm sure I'll hear about it if I am!

		Phil Stone	 (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov | ames!eos!phil)