30 May
2007
30 May
'07
9:18 p.m.
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:29, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 5/30/07, Chris Halarewich <halarewich at
gmail.com> wrote:
This reminds me of a gizmo I worked on some years back...
My brother worked for a photo processing place at that point in time. The guy
who owned it had just spent something like $1800 to get that
machine "refurbed" at the factory, and it wasn't right. The setup with
this
was that you'd mount a color negative on it, and then adjust the controls
for a good looking picture on the screen -- it used multiple filters and
photomultiplier tubes to split the colors up, and it would then tell you by
the control settings what you needed to do in the printing processing to get
good prints out of it.
Nifty gadget, even if one small portion of it was rather poorly implemented.
(And yes, I did get it fixed. :-)
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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M Dakin
do u mean this from 1986
http://www.digicamhistory.com/1986.html
*NEWTEK Digi-View - 1986. **In 1986 the NewTek* Digi-View, built to
run on the Amiga platform, was the first inexpensive video digitizer
designed for home computers....
... A video cable then
lead from the digitizer to either a B&W video camera with a color wheel
attached, or to an external color splitter box. The DigiView took 3
passes to digitize a frame, and each pass was done by filtering through
one of 3 primary colors: red, green, and blue.
... *Thanks to
Patrick Murphy for providing information concering the Digi-View.*
Patrick Murphy must never have used one... it was *4* captures: one
red, one blue, one green and one with no color filter (for
contrast)... sort of the opposite of a CMYK.
I have something similar in a Polaroid product - a high-res B&W CRT in
a box with an internal motorized color wheel and a video input. You
provide a 15KHz (NTSC freq) RGB video stream to the box, press the
"freeze" button, which captures an image internally, then it shows 4
different views through the 4 portions of the wheel and exposes a
frame of film 4 times before advancing.
I picked it up at Dayton, natually, and managed to come across the
essential control panel later. I've run a few rolls of film through
it, mostly to create interstitial slides for slide shows. It's not as
high-res as sending JPEGs out to a service bureau, but I've used my
Amiga to render text on a pleasing blue background, then exposed some
nice Fujichrome 100 slide film for a total cost of under $10/roll, or
about $0.28 per background slide.