P3D Re: Barbie Digital Camera

[Owen Pearn <owenp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i think the barbie camera is 280 by 120 pixels.

somewhere i've seen some "super-resolution" software which stitches
together smaller pictures into 1 big picture, at the same time
increasing the quality of the bigger picture relative to the quality in
the smaller pictures. the requirement is that there's heaps of overlap
in the smaller pictures. when i find the software again, i'll post.

-o-

Gabriel Jacob wrote:
> 
> Okay now that George has gotten me out of delurking mode, here's
> a question. With Christmas coming up I was thinking of getting
> my daughter (and for me) that new color Barbie digital camera
> from Mattel. The price is right at about $69 US. Of course I'm
> not expecting high resolution images at that price but was wondering
> if it is worth hacking for 3-D purposes. I visited the computer
> store but couldn't find any real specs printed on the box. The
> salesman said he read in some computer magazine that it is pretty
> decent but couldn't tell me more. I checked the Mattel web site
> but alas, not much info can be found there either.
>
> You might all remember the B&W camera adaptor for the Nintendo Game
> Boy that came out awhile back. That looked interesting especially
> for the price but checking it out , the quality was just awful. Is
> the Barbie digital camera any better?
> 
> P.S. It's interesting to note, that other toy imaging devices were
> the Tyco video cam and the novel Fisher video cam using audio
> cassettes. The latter one being a collectors item now.
> 
> Gabriel


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