> > olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> >> Actually, that to me is the killer app: the ability to put digital
> >> pics onto traditional negatives.
> > There's one on ebay closing today, unbidded, $1k opener, unknown
> > reserve bid. Original list price: $14,000.
>
> Kind of expensive for a consumer device.
Well, think about what it involves -- presumably it's something like a
holder for the slide film, some sort of shutter and lens arrangement to get
the image focussed onto the slide, and (the tricky part) a display device to
show the original image.
If you want to get a 13megapixel image onto the slide, you need a 13mp
monitor at the other end -- and while the 200dpi screens I posted a link to
a while back come close to that, those aren't going to be cheap. Heck, even
your generic 3mp digicam would need a 2000x1500 monitor -- a quick check
later, Sony do a 22" monitor that'll do 2304x1440; that's $1700 or so,
though, and while you wouldn't need all the case and stuff, you'd want a lot
more certainty of colour calibration than I suspect it comes with normally.
And, nope, that's not remotely compact -- I wonder if you could somehow
reverse a slide scanner so it sent out light? It'd be a pain to avoid it
leaking onto other bits of the image, though.
-- dan
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