30 May
2007
30 May
'07
2:30 p.m.
--- Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
OK, if I had a digital cameera, I'd use it. But
to
be honest, I can't
afford one. YEs, I'd save the cost of film and
processing, but I'd have
to buy the camera, buy a pC, by the equipment to
maintain them, and so
on. That'd buy an awful lot of film.
Some are extremely inexpensive. My only gripe about
the Digitrex DSC-2100 was that it took a bit too long
to "save" an image to the cflash card. My dinky little
Nikon does better it seems, but that battery is
worthless for *long* sessions of saving pages of text
(not that I've done alot of it to date, but I've
noticed). I'm thinking I can build a dummy battery and
tie in real voltage, even from a different set of
batteries. But I've heard that at least some cell
phones don't allow you to do this (they perform some
sort of "authentication" for want of a better term) to
see if the original battery is indeed in place.
Hey go ahead, gripe about image quality and such from
a digicam (although I hold out that with some care,
you can achieve very suitable results). But it beats
flipping a book over a scanner 90,000,000 times. You
can build an automated thingee like, I've been
learning from at least one example I saw on the net
(in Japan in fact), and plan to do it one of these
days.
I;ve yet to see a digital camera service manual, so
%deity knows what I
do whne it fails.
Toss it if it's cheap enough. Believe you me, I'm
tossing stuff these days I never thought I would.
Sometimes it's even gratifying. And never mind the
manual Tony. Those chips will be for the most part
entirley unobtainable.
Alltronics has some realy cheap ccd modules though.
$1.25 and $2.50 I think.
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