P3D Lenticulars (and misc news items...)

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

Greetings,

	Although not really "3D", for those interested in
"lenticular things", I recently received from AMD what I assume to
be a circular mouse pad with a lenticular lens covering.  It has
two pictures of the earth which change with angle ("Atlantic
view" and "Asiatic view").  "AMD" and "www.amd.com" stay constant.
	I see thsse laying around in other's offices too, so 
they're being distributed junk-mail style.
	So if you normally have contact with AMD (you'll know
who they are if you do) and want one, give'm a call (or their
rep/distributor) I'm sure they'll help you out.  Price is right.  :-)

Mike K.

P.S. - EE Times a week or two ago had an article about tradeoffs made
       in digital camera design (rather basic and CPU processing
       centric).  Interesting and somewhat frightening about the,
       uh, non-elegant things being done to drive down the costs
       of under $1K models.

P.P.S. - Current Rangefinder mag. issue shows an announcement of a digital
         camera from Leica.  Yup, and it uses changable Leica lenses.  It's a 
         studio camera and goes for $20K.  Claims that it's dynamic
         range *exceeds* slide film.  From memory it said it's DMAX (??)
         was 3.3 and had 11 f/stops of range (sounds like 36-bit color).
         Being a "scanning" type device, it's CCD is > 5,000 elements by three.
	 This issue (it's a pro photographer magazine) is even more heavily
         digital than usual.



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