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Re: One of the Mindfest pics
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Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:25:12 GMT
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bishop <bishopNOSPAM@roundcircle.com> wrote:
> That's an interesting bit of news about a superdisk based digicam.
> (I'll have to pop over to altavista...[1])

I actually read about this in a cheesy digital camera mag that I
signed up for at Comdex a year or two ago.  Lemme try Google...

Turning up nothing.  Hope this wasn't bogus in that mag... but I
did find a post in rec.photo.digital that mentioned it, but only
with respect to what the poster wanted in an ideal Sony camera.

>We have had excellent results with Sony Mavica FD-83's at
school.
> They are floppy based, but can also take short mpeg movies with sound.
> Even people who have never used one before have been very pleased
> with how easy they are to use.

Yeah, they are convenient, but the last time I looked at a Mavica,
right after they moved up to 1024, I think you could only get 1
uncompressed picture per disk.  I shudder at the thought of carrying
around a trunkload full of floppies, and then depending on all of
those floppies to read properly.  :)

> Of course I prefer my dept's Sony DSC-D700, now there is a sweet camera,
> (as long as someone else is footing the bill).  Slap in a 64mb compactflash,
> and shoot all afternoon.  Or if you are alergic to jpeg artifacts, shoot
> about 15
> shots uncompressed.  Very highly recommended. Almost like using a 35mm slr.

I've heard good things about it, but I'm hoping for a solution that
will allow me to take hundreds, if not thousands of pictures while
we're in Italy and Greece next summer.  Seems like it's either
Superdisk or find a Libretto to carry along with me...

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  Re: One of the Mindfest pics
 
(...) I don't think that they even _have_ an uncompressed mode. 1024x768x24bit = 2.3M. Too big for a floppy. The FD-based mavicas, from what I've heard, do reallly nasty jpeg compression in order to fit stuff in such a small space. Compact flash is (...) (27 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: One of the Mindfest pics
 
Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) I was a real strong believer in uncompressed (I'm allergic to jpeg compression). But I have to say, after playing a little with them (and the D700), I can tolerate the image quality they output at their (...) (27 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) (I'll have to pop over to altavista...[1]) We have had excellent results with Sony Mavica FD-83's at school. They are floppy based, but can also take short mpeg movies with sound. Even people who have never (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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