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Joe, Memory is memory. 🙂 $195 sounds more typical. It should do the job for you. I am not really familiar with Elan Performer. I thought it was essentially an animation program, but could be way off base. I don't think you really want an animation program from your earlier description. In any case, Digi-View comes with a slide show program, and there are loads of them in the libraries here in the forum. (I like SuperView from the libraries…. and the price is right. 🙂 ) Digi-View is a digitizer. It is an hardware interface for the camera to the Amiga and software to control the digitizing process. The software does perform some image processing functions, but an image processor gives more functions and more control over them. Digitizing is composed of several discrete steps, at least for good images. First is selection of an appropriate image to digitize. I imagine everyone can handle this one, though you should be aware that a photographic system like digi-view or DCTV may have trouble with dark images. Second is the actual digitizing procedure. In either digi-view or DCTV this is done by having the camera scan the image three times, one for each red, green and blue. The digitized image output is directly related to the focus of your camera, lighting, quality of the lens, etc. This is a photographic process, remember. The third step is processing the image to obtain best results. You can do a good bit of this with digi-view (and I imagine DCTV) software, though it is a little more difficult than a real image processor. With ADPro or IM, you save the digi-view image as a RGB file and optimize it with the image processor. (You can do it with the HAM image, but using the RGB output is better.) Cropping out external garbage from the digitization, resizing it, more precise control over image colors and brightness, etc., are things the image processor can do for you that the digi-view software cannot. You can get by with the digi-view software and a HAM paint program. [ MORE ]