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Subject:	Re: OT: Colour photos from Russia in the early 1900s
Newsgroups:	lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
Date:	Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:37:53 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry wrote: > "Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote: > > > It was pretty ghetto, but in 1987, it was absolutely out of this world. > > So this was for capturing colour stills, not video, right? Yup. Fantastic 768x482 stills in 4096 colours (Overscan HiRes in Dynamic Hold and Modify mode). Here's a picture of the DigiView stuff: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=307 The plexiglass colour filter was upscale, I bought the version in the picture below which came with the chetto cardboard filter. You could manually rotate the filter or buy a device called a DigiDroid, which was a RC car servo attached to a joystick connector. The Amiga would signal the DigiDroid to rotate the filter 90 degrees, then it would start capturing the next phase. The DigiDroid was about $100, I remember paying about $900 for the Panasonic CCTV camera, copystand and Digiview software/hardware. (Jesus that was expensive). $900 today gets you the camera body of a 6MP Canon DSLR. Sigh. In retrospect, this would have made a superb Mindstorms project (the filter turner)... Some other PC automation projects I could think of: -An adorable DDS/DAT tape library -A DVD/CDR duplicating machine to make copies of Midlife Crisis band recordings -Slide Scanner loader/unloader to automate 35mm slide scanning The other super chetto image capture device I used a lot was a thing called the Canon Xapshot. It was the first "digital" camera I'd ever seen, around 1992 or so: http://www.mikety.net/Articles/AC.SFW/Images/pic5.jpg It made horrifically bad (in today's perspective) picture quality: http://www.mikety.net/Articles/AC.SFW/Images/pic6.jpg I used to use that in conjunction with another Amiga capture device called a DCTV. The photos were worse than my crappy camera phone. Calum

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		Re: OT: Colour photos from Russia in the early 1900s
(...) called the (...) 1992 or (...) Iain (20 years ago, 5-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

		Re: OT: Colour photos from Russia in the early 1900s
(...) How about using a scanner as a camera: (URL) He also has a Lego page: (URL) -Rob A. (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) So this was for capturing colour stills, not video, right? Iain (20 years ago, 5-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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