#DigiView
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Mr. Moose (couldn't resist), I am having some trouble digitizing with
Digi-View. I am able to get some photos with decent result s, unless there
is a fair amount of dark content. Although this seems to me a reasonable
limit to the system. I am however using a great amount of line-art for
newsletters and cagalogs. This is where things fall apart. A straight line
.03mm dark and crisp will show to be between 4-6 pixels wide, and in soft
grey tones using Dpaint (or anything else). To retrace a simple drawing tak
ees me about 6-6 1/2 hours of clean-up. (No joy here). I have an Amiga
1000,Panasonic WV-1410, C-mounted Vivatar 28mm lens, 2 Co ol white circular
lamps @ 22W each. And a decent copy stand. I can move the lights wherever I
choose, but that doesn't seem to make much of a difference. I also have a
Polarizing filter, and that seems to buy little help as well. I have tried
stopping the lens down, to see if I was throwing too much light on the
target, with only poorer results. I have also tried setting the levels on
the control screen, to very little improvement. I have checked out my
cable, camera, software at my local computer shop, and have replaced the
cable. (I couldn't get a sharp image at all with the old cable). Switching
lenses does not give improved image with line-art subjects. I have also
tried to take the image in the Line-Art mode, and you cannot tell what the
subject was to begin with. In the B&W mode, I have a lack of crispness. Any
help would be very much welcome!!
Thank-You in advance,
Bob Felts, 72767,642 P.S. I have
uploaded a Digi-Pic to the AmigaArts forum that does your product some
justice, you may wish to check it out, Viking
lzh on New Uploads. Hope to hear from you soon, Bob
Hi Bob, I also am having some of the same problems you have experienced and
am interested in some tips on improving my Pics. I do have a question for
you though…. You said you have a C-Mounted Vivitar lens mounted to your
camera. I have a Canon 35mm Camera with an assortment of len's. I have
heard that using 35mm camera len's with the Panasonic camera improves the
quality of the digitized pics. I have not been able to find a C-Mount
adapter for the Canon lens. Do you know where I could get one? The local
camera stores in my area have not been to helpful.
Ray
Ray –
Try looking through the phone book for Video Equipment – Dealers. Find a
Panasonic dealer who advertises he serves the commercial or educational
market. Chances are that he'll have the adapter. They were running about
$50 (as I recall) last time I looked into it in this area.
Bill, K3OZM
Bob,
I had to digitize some line art for the first time a few weeks ago. I was
thinking: "Boy, this will be impossible with a video camera and Digi-View".
I was wrong. Needless to say, you need lots of light on your image. After
that, you can try digitizing line-art, although a good portion of the image
may look like mud using the default settings. For a clean line-art
rendering, try elevating the BRIGHTNESS and CONTRAST settings… Real high,
like in the teens or higher. I forget, but you'll want one higher than the
other (I think it's BRIGHTNESS). Good luck!