on 9/24/02 4:40 PM, Daniel J. Mitchell at DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
>>> 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
What about sweeping a piece of film with a laser, either through different
color filters or three different light colors. Build the image just as if it
was going out on a very very small laser printer at 4000dpi or so...
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
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