[photo-3d] RE: Digital

["Paul Spangler" <spangler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	The company I work for bought several Casio QV3000 digital cameras 
that can shoot 2048 x 1536 and have a SmartCard that is a tiny IBM 
340MB hard drive, which can hold 240 images at high rez (JPEG at best 
quality) and !2000! images at 1024 x 768 (JPEG at medium).
	I joined two together bottom-to-bottom with double-sided foam tape 
and shot several hundred pictures over the last couple of weekends
and 
I'm very happy with the results. I merged the pairs in Photoshop for 
anaglyph viewing and printed them out at 8" x 10" on a Canon Color 
Laser printer. The digital shutter delay actually helped by letting
be 
bang both shutter buttons hard and fast, then a moment delay to hold 
the camera steady for the shot a moment later.
	I only wish I had access to a slide printer.

BTW, when I compared a JPEG file (at best quality) to an uncompressed 
TIFF, I couldn't see much difference. The JPEG file was <1.5MB and
the 
TIFF was >9MB!


>Message: 16
>   Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:47:59 -0400
>   From: "Gabriel Jacob" <gjacob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: digital

>I was thinking of adding a couple of hundred meg flash card (or
similar)
>in order to get a reasonable number of exposures which (the last
time I
>checked) would add a couple of hundred $ more to the camera price.

>--BW

>I've heard there is also those tiny 1Gbyte HD that IBM that has come
out
>with. My understanding is you can substitute one of these for some
>types of
>memory cards. These tiny HD are supposed to be cheaper than using 
>memory cards (assuming you have the right type of memory card slot).
>
>Gabriel