Re: What is APS?

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >I'll wait for high-res digital where manipulation is a king (while in APS
> >manipulation is a pawn).  Or maybe for APS-Plus! or APS-II, or some such.
> >
> Wow! Ever "manipulate" an image?  RGB? CMYK? Gamma? Un-Sharp mask?

Yes.  I use Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw's suite from time to time.

> Not exactly a one-button click-and-fix. If you want digital, Kodak
> makes "Photo-CD"

See previous list references to the "perfect camera/viewer".  :-)

In summary, given processing-power-on-a-chip say, ten years from now,
we should be able to generate a digital camera at a somewhat reasonable 
price (*if* sold in volume) that will do much of the processing, including 
window manipulation (and such) probably in real time, and in the camera.  And
in stereo.  And the camera will do it "automatically" using various
image pattern matching and perhaps rule-based processing algorithms
(or something else... :-).

I don't consider "Photo-CD" a high quality digital camera system.  Not
what I have in mind. 

Kodak has some cameras (with appropriately high prices) but I expect those 
prices to drop like a rock and quality to skyrocket as most bleeding edge 
technologies have historically.  Mostly driven by the internet and the eventual
conversion of 2D display projections of 3D "space" into 3D projection of 3D space
when the time and marketplace is "ripe".  And they might say 'Samsung' (etc) on the
box instead of "Kodak".  :-)

Mike K.

P.S. - There are some new DSP chips announced by TI with pretty awesome
       processing power to be available soon.  Imagine a chip about 5 to 8
       generations past that one.  :-)



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