Re: OT: Digital Camera Info
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- Subject: Re: OT: Digital Camera Info
- From: G* S* <g*@loop.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:11:38 -0700 (MST)
Dennis Bishop wrote:
>
> If film is ever replaced by ccd's, it'll be about 500 years
> down the road. In a normal 8 x 10 print made from film, there
> is over 10 megabytes of data...
Probably a lot sooner than that, but it may be "cheating"
in that it will use optical storage.
BTW, making it affordable may also involve switching from CCD to
dynamic RAM-based sensors, a technology developed at JPL which
should hit the mass market soon, whatever that means.
>
> Oh BTW people, I, Dennis Bishop (Dahliaman) took 1st Place in
> the Am.Dahlia Soc. Photo Contest for 1997 in the class of Artist
> photos. You all may now hubble yourselves before me! :>
Congrats!
BTW, Dennis, have you got plugged in to the High Desert Iris Society yet?
Gerry
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