Labels:text | screenshot | black and white OCR: BARY *To continue press space bar, up - down arrows etc. + HELP for functions* di, and welcome to the world of inexpensive high quality computer pictures, not Irawings or graphics, but real photographs, taken in the real world, and brought to you using some very sophisticated hardware. Please note that to the best of my knowledge all the contents of this disk are in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy it and distribute it, (In its entirety please) for which only a small charge to cover the cost of copying, ware and tare on the disk-drives and postage, should be made. It is not intended as a profit making item. If you ran the pictures before reading this, then you've already seen so the highest quality digitised photographs available on a standard Amiga. On a regular Philips or Commodore monitor, even through a TV using the A520 modulator, (yes thats the thing that pokes awkwardly out of the back of an A500 and takes up far more desk space than it should), I think you'll agree that the pictures look pretty stunning. s been spared !! The reason is quite simple, no expense has been spared !! The digitising software is Newtek's "Digi-View", in its version 3 form. The Amy its attached to and has "done the deed" so to speak is an A500. It has a 68020 and 68881 for the technical - which makes no difference to the picture quality, though RAM expansion well beyond 1 meg does help when we're handling some of the larger RGB files. As far as running the pictures is concerned any Amy with at least its standard 512K of RAM should be able to handle them quite happily. (I have to admit I've not tried to run them on an A1000 with 256K). Given the above, why, I hear you ask are the pictures so clear and sharp? No secret, its the camera. Its not a security camera, or a domestic video camera, it has a bit more beef than either of those. Its a broadcast quality beasty of the type you might use for putting pictures into some of the most expensive dedicated graphics systems around. It really is broadcast quality unlike some of the claims made by a few rather optimistic computer suppliers, and has pictures on the telly quite regularly. It also happens to belong to me. .. er and the bank. Before you rush out and invest all your hard earned loot on a camera that'll give you the same results, the bit about the bank wasn't all a joke. It set me back a cool @32, 000, and that doesn't include the car to put it in !! OK so whats this getting at? One of the outstanding features of all Amiga's is their exceptional ability at handling graphics. Compared to systems costing hundreds if not thousands of pounds more they come out very well, and for the price well .... I'll stick my neck out and say there isn't anything to touch them. Professional broadcast graphics systems wont leave much you much change from u500, 000 (yes thats the right number of zero's after the five). When you consider that prices currently for Commodores officially bundled A500 packs start at under u400, it has to be said that you're getting one helluvalot for your dosh. You don't, admittedly get 24bit colour, neither do you have the ulcer that accompanies the second Electronic Arts, NewTek, Progressive mortgage; you do have companies like Peripherals & Software, Gold Disk - the list is long - ensuring that you can get the best value for money by utilising Amy's potential. In the last twelve months the Amy has become more and more established as the home, school, and even dare I say it, office, graphically orientated desktop computer (Commodore are aiming squarely at the latter with their dazzling A3000 and the forthcoming interactive software). When a machine has the phenomenal power of Denise, Agnus, et al behind it, (to say nothing of the 68000+ series) its hardly surprising that you want it to do more than shootemup and splatemdown (though its tremendous fun painlessly crashing into runways time after time). The Amy is a workhorse that can do lots more than just play, and to get the best from graphics software is where the "Computer Picture Library" comes in. DTP has long had available clip art. I find it invaluable, its saved me from re-wallpapering one third of my office, (you have to stick the sheets with the little clip illustrations somewhere), and its definitely livened up our flyers and outward-bound stationary. To the point; clip art for DTP AND NOW - NIK WILLIAMS BROADCAST COMPUTER PICTURE LIBRARY For Desktop Video Sorry I took so long to get there. You might be thinking whats the point of it? After all with Digi-View, and some of the other excellent digitising software that's around, shouldn't I get stunning results anyway? The answer is quite simple. For ordinary everyday image grabbing the cameras on the domestic market are pretty much OK, though my limited experience with them seems to indicate that to get the best out of them can be a faff and a fiddle. What they don't have (which is hardly surprising when you compare the cost - in most cases a factor of around thirty-two) is the resolution or extra electronic circuits of a broadcast camera to really do justice to Amy's quite staggering potential. Its quite likely that there'll be many occasions when you'll want that extra sharp, more colourful picture to liven up a piece of work you're doing. Its also quite possible that you'll not really be into digitising, but need a picture as a starting point for a drawing, graphic or other piece of artwork. Under circumstances like these, a bought in picture, at very low cost will in all probability fit the bill much more suitably, leaving your hard won cash for something else. You see, despite the exceptional quality, NWB Picture Library sets are the lowly sum of w15.99 for two disks with around ten pictures on them. This price may well be reviewed, but whoever you are, and, bearing in mind the points below, whatever you want them for, thats all it'll cost you. Am I mad or what? They come to you in glorious HAM, with its clever way of getting all those extra colours (don't ask me how) onto the screen at the same time. One advantage of this is that you can convert them to ordinary IFF to import into say Deluxe Paint, without really losing any more quality than if the picture had been stored in 64, 32, or 16 colours originally. Converting them's a doddle. Digi-View will do it, so will PIXmate, as well as I believe one or two of the PD programs that are around these days. when might you use the Computer Picture Library? Honestly, what a silly question !! How about a realistic background to that animation, a picture to illustrate life in rural down town Rift Valley Villages, an old motor car to liven up the desktop display that the school is putting together, a selection of kids to put together with some music for a video for granny .. . they all love kids. . . a relaxing picture show of the countryside. A magazine cover for computer buffs, a run for an interactive video on the green issue ..... Your only limit is your imagination. As you've already got an Amy you must have imagination. Right? What of the choice of subjects? Well at the moment it would be unfair to call it huge, but it is growing all the time. A 'phone call will guarantee you an up to date list of whats currently available. The Library's been designed so that under a generic title, like motorbikes, there is a selection of pictures. The Library ranges from the mundane to the somewhat more exotic and artistic. Obviously not everyone will want every picture, but some thought has been put into making sure that the sets currently available are useful. If what you want isn't provided for, then ask for it. That way I can get an idea of what future disks should hold. To be released at the end of January 1991 are :- MotorBikes, African Famine, Children, The Gower, Vintage Adverts, Marinas Views of Vietnam Still Life The Nude Art In Photography Ind how may you use them? This is the legal bit so read it carefully. I own the copyright on all the pictures, yes thats right, I was there. 1/. You may, if you have purchased the disk set, and not copied it, or obtained a copy of either an entire disk or one or more of our pictures, from somebody else, use the pictures in your own desktop presentations ad infinitum, you may copy them at will, and stick them on a hard disk or video recorder, for use by yourself 2/. You may sell the pictures in any modified shape, size and form, on any type of media providing their source is clearly acknowledged on the medium used (ie Nik Williams Broadcast Computer Picture Library). 3/. You may sell them in unmodified form on any media other than that known in the computer industry as floppy disk, or other computer orientated removable magnetic media providing their source is acknowledged as in 2/. above. 4/. You may sell them in unmodified form on floppy disk computer media, providing that it is not your intention to provide a service in anyway similar to the Nik Williams Broadcast Computer Library Picture Service. For example in educational software where the pictures form part of a story, in all cases providing their source is acknowledged as in 2/. above 5/. You may not, under any circumstances copy the disks and or their original contents, including individual pictures, for somebody else to use. 6/. As of 29/12/90, it is not a violation of the licensing agreement to use the pictures on Laser Disk, CD ROM, and Video Medium Specified for Terrestrial or Satellite Broadcast. I would appreciate your cooperation in telling me about such transfers, specifically because I believe the MTF of Amy Pics is really excellent for these media. and, I'm interested to discover if I'm right. 7/. If you wish to use the pictures in any of the few ways prohibited above please state your intentions in writing, to the address below, so we may come to an agreement over their use. Basically thats it. Once you've bought them you can do what you like, so long as you don't copy them for anyone else, or let anybody else use the original disks. This way it should be possible to build up the Library so that when you want a pic, presto, its just a 'phone call and a few fivers away. Whatever else, the pics on this demo are yours, I could ask for money if you use them, but I wasn't born yesterday. Enjoy .... I would appreciate a credit when they are used. All pictures on this and other NIK WILLIAMS BROADCAST Computer Library Picture Disks are the copyright of N.J.N. Williams, and may be reproduced under the above terms providing the disks on which the pictures are used have been paid for as specified at the time of purchase. The sets come on two disks, with around ten pics in total. @15.99 per set, three or more sets less 5%, five or more sets less 10%, 10 sets less 15%. ú1 to cover mailing regardless of quantity. CWO please. Callers, please 'phone first. To order and for further information, please contact :- Nik Williams, Nik Williams Broadcast, Aspect House, 21 Brynmill Crescent, Brynmill, Swansea, SAZ OAL. 0792 470503 If, when all's said and done you need a special picture, that needs some special treatment, 'phone and we'll do our best to accommodate. It'll be a fairly inexpensive service, and if we can come to an arrangement over copyright. . . . it could be a lot less expensive than you think. Its always nice to hear from fellow sufferers. . I mean enthusiasts !! If you've never seen VILBM before, please read the notice that's supplied. Its a program well worth using as your graphic and picture libraries grow. I take the credit, or the blame for altering VILBM's icon, for those interested its a likeness to the camera we use to source the pictures for the digitiser. VILBM is not supplied with the Picture Library Disks, in a specifically worded clause accompanying the program it prohibits commercial sale. I also must point but that with disk files taking up around 150K of space there really isn't room for much other than pictures. So far my efforts to crunch them, and get them back have been thwarted. Anyone got any ideas ?? Digi-View is a Trademark of NewTek Inc. Deluxe Paint is a Trademark of Electronic Arts Inc. PIXmate is a Trademark of Progressive Peripherals And Software Inc. NIK WILLIAMS BROADCAST is a small company providing quality camera crews for the broadcast and corporate video and film industry. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that this self booting disk will run properly, I can accept no liability for unforeseen circumstances. Heart attacks from shock at the picture quality, tired monitors giving up the ghost trying to get the pictures sharp enough etc. The master disks have been checked for Viruses using VirusX by Steve Tibbet. Cheers.
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