Early Electronic Image Capture

On 5/30/07, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: It might be - mine is about 6" wide, 5" tall, about 18" deep, with two camera fronts (Polaroid Medical Imaging Film or ASA 100 slide), a number of BNCs on the back for sync/R/G/B, plus a DB25 to a pendant-type console that is the size of a small text book, with a few buttons and a couple of slide pots. I'd quote chapter and verse for the model, but it's not where I am. Since the input is analog video, I don't think it's a Polaroid "Digital Palette" product. It's certainly nowhere close to 2000 lines of resolution. ~500 at the outside, most likely closer to 200 or 240 lines. This one is not clearly meant to be computer-controlled. The way I've used it is to attach a video source (Amiga) to the inputs, a 15KHz RGB monitor (Barco, VR241, NEC 3d, C= 1950...) to the outputs, then visually compose the scene and press a console button to "freeze" the image, which can then be tweaked with the slide pots, until one presses "print". Much noise issues from the machine, the film advances, and one repeats the process. -ethan