18 Dec
2007
18 Dec
'07
3:57 p.m.
On Sunday 16 December 2007 22:36, Alexandre Souza wrote:
(Snip)
Speaking of which this brings to mind another old project idea I had that
never went anywhere. That was using a 3" scope tube to "write" to film,
and
then after developing, to read it back again. I vaguely recall "flying spot
scanner" being somewhat related to this, I think there was some equipment
out there that'd actually take a 35mm slide. Though I'd envisioned a roll of
film, driven by a stepper motor.
The mechanical complexity of it really put me off from ever developing the
idea, though I do have the scope tube. :-) Also the idea of having to try
and get the film developed, figure out what sort of film and focus /
intensity settings would give the best results, etc.
My own idea of "optical storage". :-)
Seems to me that moving an electron beam has gotta be seriously faster than
spinning the media, which is what everybody else seemt to be into doing. I
wonder what I'm missing here?
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
False; a
multitude of DSLRs (and indeed, compact cameras) now exist that
will directly interface to a (certainly considered "irrepairable" by
you) printer. No PC necessary. And, given that you have anything that
can read from a CF card (which is trivially adaptable to an IDE bus),
you can read that, as well.
And of course, with the cheap price of memory cards, you can use it as
a "write once" card. It is even being created right now, people discovered
that is nicer to have a "write once" card than download lots of photos to
the computer.