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In article <6871@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
>in article <5074@garfield.MUN.EDU>, jay@garfield.MUN.EDU (Jay
>Kumarasingam) says: 
>
>> Does any one know of any hardware/software combinations for slide
>> production on the amiga.  The capability to send the image start from
>> the amiga to the camera box must exist.  Something that would give
>> professional quality output.
>
>There's a box called the "Polaroid Pallette" that will allow recording
>computer images on ordinary photographic film. If you did up any info
>on me, I'm sure that there's a number of people on the net who'd be
>interested. 

Liquid Light in Torrance, Ca. sells a kit for $2500 which contains
the Polaroid Palette, two film backs (one for slides, one for
prints), software to drive it, and a heinous box that prevents
you from ruinning their software on a machine without it.

It's a pretty good system, and does a reasonable job. It only has two
problems.

The guy that wrote the software that drives the thing did a dumb
thing in that instead of using a look up table for the exposure
values (one value per RGB colour tick per r/g/b filter) he
built the exposure table by computing it, when the program
starts up, from the values of the filters, and the colour
values of the films. Well, he was a reaonable engineer,
and it works, but it could be improved on. This manifests
istself in the worst way when you are doing a slide
with a lot of blues. It translates them into a about
6 shades of blue.

Other companies that use the palette spend a lot of
bucks and pay an optica engineer to develop an optimal
exposure table.

The other problem of course is the stupid box.

What it's there for is to prevent you buying a palatte
at the normal retail price of $1300 and using their
software.

At any rate, if anybody wants to do some serious playing around 
wit this thing, I have a driver I sorta wrote once, thats
about 7/8 finished, and the CORRECT film exposure table. Email me.

The market has been a little soft for Liquid Light in the amiga
area. But they double the price, sell them for the Mac ][ and
then sell like hotcakes. Sigh.


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