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From: mitchell@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Manipulation of Courtroom Evidence
Keywords: video graphics computer alter evidence
Message-ID: <9788@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 22 Feb 90 19:03:11 GMT
References: <102034@pyramid.pyramid.com> <687@dsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: mitchell@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Fred Mitchell - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <687@dsoft.UUCP> dfrancis@dsoft.UUCP (Dennis Heffernan) writes:
>In article <102034@pyramid.pyramid.com> wniren@pyrtech (Walter Nirenberg)
>writes:
>>Hi.  My friend is a 2nd year law student and she is working on a
>>fascinating project with which she needs a little help.
>>
>>Basically, she is investigating the impact of recent computer
>>graphics technology advances on the use of video and photographs as
>>courtroom evidence.  As many of you may know, it has been possible
>>over the past few years to manipulate photographs and videos at
>>a bit-level using new generations of graphics computers.  The results
>>are that you can completely alter what these media display.
>
>	As I see it, machines like the Amiga can't quite modify photographs 
>that well- YET.  The Mac II's with 32-bit QuickDraw have enough colors, but
>the
>resolution is still low.  (As I understand it, the resolution of film is
>pretty
>high, on the order of thousands of pixels by thousands of pixels.)

You are forgetting one thing. The quality and resolution of the output depends
only on the PRINTER you are using. There are color printer capable of printing
near-photographic quality prints- but they are in the $5000 to $15000 price
range. There is software, also, on the Amiga that will allow you to view/
modify images much larger than the screen. So, if you happen to be able to
afford the expensive hardware, you can do retouching to your heart's content.
And yes, even on the Amiga.

>	--dfh	...uunet!tronsbox!dsoft!dfrancis

-Mitchell