30 May
2007
30 May
'07
7:29 p.m.
On 5/30/07, Chris Halarewich <halarewich at gmail.com> wrote:
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.
-ethan