16 Apr
2001
16 Apr
'01
12:18 p.m.
On Monday, April 16, 2001, at 09:33 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Nice if you've got a color splitter, but
doesn't a B&W camera produce a
crisper image than a color camera? That only matters for print
digitizing,
of course. You would have been able to digitize video stills, which was
a big deal back then.
The cameras intended for use with the DigiView's colorwheel were
B&W Considering that it's captures were done in 4096 colors, it was
pretty advanced for it's time. Other than expensive high-end stuff, few
video cards were even capable of displaying to that depth. It would be
nearly two years before the PS/2 would introduce VGA and it's 256 color
mode in the same resolution.
Jeff