29 May
2007
29 May
'07
11:45 p.m.
On May 30, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Roger Merchberger wrote:
IIRC, the first (or darned near) mass produced
self-contained
consumer digital camera was made by Logitech - back then everything
they made was a "man" - SoundMan, TrackMan, etc. It was a something-
Man -- hold on, googling now...
OK, it was the FotoMan. The resolution was monochrome 284 by 376
pixels, 256-level monochrome.
Oh man that brings back some memories! I wrote the "suck the
images out of the camera" DOS software for the FotoMan for Logitech.
That had to have been 1991 or thereabouts. I may still have one of
the prototypes buried in a box somewhere. The FotoMan worked
surprisingly well, and the image quality wasn't bad at all.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL