Examples of photos captured with the Newtek Digi-View and the Digi-View digitizer .
http://www.cis.rit.edu/~jerry/Image/2000/10/amiga/
NEWTEK Digi-View - 1986.
In 1986 the NewTek Digi-View, built
to run on the Amiga platform, was the first video digitizer for a
computer. Digi-View was also the
first personal computer digitizer to capture 4096-color, photo quality
images. Soon afterward, NewTek followed with
DigiPaint, which provided video painting capabilities within the computer
system. The Newtek DigiView video digitizer
was the first example of a video digitizing system. It was developed to
take advantage of the Amiga 1000's advanced video capabilities and was pluged
into the Amiga's parallel printer port. A video cable then lead from the
digitizer to either a B&W video camera with a color wheel attached, or to an
external color splitter box. The DigiView took 3 passes to digitize a frame, and
each pass was done by filtering through one of 3 primary colors: red, green, and
blue. This meant that the image being digitized had be still or paused. The
digitizer generally captured at 320x200 pixels with up to 4096 colors, but was
capable of 640x512 pixels if the system had sufficient memory. Once all
three captures were done, the Newtek software then merged them into a single
color capture.
Thanks to Patrick Murphy for providing information concering the
Digi-View.
Examples of
photos captured with the Newtek Digi-View and the Digi-View digitizer
.
http://www.cis.rit.edu/~jerry/Image/2000/10/amiga/