25 Jun
2012
25 Jun
'12
4:39 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I might be able to help, though. I have a
'Polaroid Videopritner 4', for
all Polaroid assured me they had never made such a beast... This is
similar, but lower-reulotuon device, it displys TV-rate video on an
internal CRT and photographs it.
There's a colour fitler wheel (red, green, blue and a hole) so it cna
print a colour inamge in 3 goes.
I have a similar device - two actually. The first one I got for free
or nearly free, with a Polaroid camera, and no control panel. The
second cost under $100 and had the control panel and a 35mm camera, so
between the two, I have one useful unit. The Polaroid film in
question was sold for medical uses, so was quite expensive even 20
years ago when one could buy it off the shelf ($50-$70 per cassette, I
was told).
Like your "Videoprinter 4", mine has a mono CRT and a color wheel.
AFAIK, it does *4* exposures - R, G, B, and "contrast" (no filter).
It takes in an EGA signal or NTSC video, and has onboard memory for
frame capture of live video. I've done some sample image grabbing
from a movie on laserdisc, and for practical uses, I
use to make title
slides with it, back when we used 35mm slide projectors for
presentations (I produced the slide content on an Amiga since that was
the easiest thing to use that I had on hand). Back when slide houses
charged several dollars each for presentation graphics, this was a
moderate-quality way of doing my own interstitials for slide shows for
the cost of one roll of ordinary 35mm slide film ($4-$5 for a roll of
Fuji E-6 ASA 100 film, $7-$8 for processing and mounting).
I haven't used it in years, but it was great 15+ years ago when I first got it.
-ethan