Early Electronic Image Capture

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. * It was developed to take advantage of the Amiga 1000's advanced video capabilities. **Digi-View was also the first personal computer digitizer to capture 4096-color, photo quality images. ** Soon afterward, NewTek followed with DigiPaint, which provided video painting capabilities within the computer system. * The Newtek DigiView video digitizer was the first example of a video digitizing system. It was developed to take advantage of the Amiga 1000's advanced video capabilities and was pluged into the Amiga's parallel printer port. 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. This meant that the image being digitized had be still or paused. The digitizer generally captured at 320x200 pixels with up to 4096 colors, but was capable of 640x200 pixels if the system had sufficient memory. Once all three captures were done, the Newtek software then merged them into a single color capture. *Thanks to Patrick Murphy for providing information concering the Digi-View.* On 5/30/07, Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> wrote: