Digitizer Advice
29-Sep-90 17:14:34
Sb: #976-Digitizer Advice
Fm: Steve Bennett/SYSOP 76702,1071
To: Bill Eastburn 70007,1657
Jumping in here… <grin> Number 1 is impossible. Nobody anywhere will
ever be able to show you a 768×480 image with 16 million colors whether
digitized by DigiView or not. The most they can show you is 368640 colors,
since that's the number of pixels in that size of image. <grin>
As for Number 2, I find it unlikely at best. Digiview, IMHO, isn't
really designed for a color input source. It's best use is with a high
quality B&W video camera using their color wheel to grab images of objects
or photographs. In this manner one can conceivably get much better input
than you can get with any framegrabber with a color source. But you give
up the ability to get really good images from a standard color video
source. So it really depends on your application to determine what is more
appropriate for your uses. If you are primarily trying to get pictures of
objects or photographs which you can put on a copy stand, DigiView is by
far to most cost effective way to high quality. If you are primarily
digitizing video output from TV, VCR, or LaserDisc, you're going to have to
spend more to get good quality at a still relatively low price. This is
all IMHO, by the way. It's a subjective call.
–>Steve Bennett