Are you sure that isn't a K10D high ISO sample?
;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:29 PM Subject: My first digital pic (Was: Oh how times have changed) > Here's one of the computer eyes pics I made with my apple II in the mid > 1980s. Ingrid, the little girl on the right is now a 23 year old writer > living in New York. Heidi, the girl on the left. is a 30 year old art > director in Chicago. They had to sit very still for these to get good > results. The big Sharp VHS video camera was connected to a card in the > computer slot. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5155730 > > On Nov 3, 2006, at 5:30 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> The first digital imaging I did was with a Computer Eyes card in an >> Apple IIGS with 256K RAM and 1 megahertz clock speed. It captured >> single frames using a video camera. >> Paul >> On Nov 2, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 2, 2006, at 6:10 PM, J and K Messervy wrote: >>> >>>> I borrowed "The Medium Format Advantage" by Enrst Wildi from the >>>> local >>>> library the other day and it is very informative. The book was >>>> published in >>>> 1995. I've just reached the chapter on Digital Imaging and Medium >>>> Format >>>> and it is almost quaint. >>>> >>>> I quote: >>>> >>>> "Image processing programs run faster when there is a large amount >>>> of RAM >>>> available. Plan on at least 16 MB of RAM. If you want to do >>>> commercial >>>> work, plan on more. Just as you will need plenty of RAM when >>>> processing >>>> your images, you will need a large-capacity hard disk for storing >>>> your >>>> images. At lease 300 MB is a good starting place." >>> >>> Ah, the good old days. Back when I started doing digital imaging, a >>> 10Mbyte hard drive and 512K RAM was such a huge amount of computing >>> space for a home computer it was almost inconceivable that I could >>> own it for under $4000! >>> >>> (The system I did digital imaging work on for NASA cost over $28 >>> Million and required a 20x30', power and air conditioned room to >>> house it in.) >>> >>> Godfrey >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
