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What is the oldest digital pic you have on your computer?
The company I was working for in the mid-late 80s did online photos
in real estate listing systems. The images were acquired using Sony cameras that recorded analog info on 2" microfloppy media. The floppies were taken back to a digitizing station where there was a player that output NTSC video. A PC with a video frame grabber board was used to digitize the images, where they were quantized and uploaded to the host computer. Resolution was obviously low in every imaginable way; iirc they were 16 grey scales, and barely measured in kilopixels. Brokers viewed the results via a simple board added into a serial dumb terminal. Connection to the host was over dialup, with early installs using 4800 or 9600 baud modems. I appear to have a test image or two from old backup tapes, but need to figure out how to convert them to something useful on modern equipment. We were also known to use the digitizing gear evenings and weekends for other entertainment. I have some of the results printed on paper, though the files are long gone. Quantization effects on old concert footage, anyone? De |
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What is the oldest digital pic you have on your computer?
"Dennis Boone" wrote in message ... The company I was working for in the mid-late 80s did online photos in real estate listing systems. The images were acquired using Sony cameras that recorded analog info on 2" microfloppy media. The floppies were taken back to a digitizing station where there was a player that output NTSC video. A PC with a video frame grabber board was used to digitize the images, where they were quantized and uploaded to the host computer. Resolution was obviously low in every imaginable way; iirc they were 16 grey scales, and barely measured in kilopixels. Brokers viewed the results via a simple board added into a serial dumb terminal. Connection to the host was over dialup, with early installs using 4800 or 9600 baud modems. I did that too, in central PA. I started out with a Canon still video, then we went to a Sony ProMavica still video with a setup much like you described. The system we used had terminals called "PhotoList" and would show the digitized photo along with the listing information. They could get thermal prints which by today's standards were awful! Before the photography market for the MLS dried up in 2006, I was using a Nikon D200, 18-135, and a Sigma 10-20 for intereriors. REALTORS found if they buy their own cameras, they wouldn't have to pay photogs anymore... I appear to have a test image or two from old backup tapes, but need to figure out how to convert them to something useful on modern equipment. We were also known to use the digitizing gear evenings and weekends for other entertainment. I have some of the results printed on paper, though the files are long gone. Quantization effects on old concert footage, anyone? De |
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