PERIPHERALS | ||||||||||
Name | Price | Rating | Comment | Additional Info | Supplier | Tel | Issue | Page no | Additional comments, notes | |
Video Cameras | ||||||||||
Connectix Colour Quickcam | £175 | lllllm | Almost cheap enough to buy as a toy, but also viable for video conferencing. | 640x480 video capture, focussing ring, VIDEC compression. | Computer Connections | 01473 232282 | 24 | 165 | recommended | |
Video Capture/Editing | ||||||||||
Aver VideoEditor | £399 | llllmm | Useful and well integrated, but costly if all you want is video titles. | Solutions | 01242 580816 | 24 | 172 | |||
Fast FPS 60 | £499 | lllllm | Impressive. Full PAL field digitising at reasonable ratios. | 16-bit 3/4 length ISA card, Philips and Zoran chipset. | Fast Electronics | 0171 221 8024 | 13 | 129 | ||
Fast AV Master | £999 | lllllm | True SVHS output for under £1000 and unquestionable performance. | PCI, image capture at up to 768x576 at 50 fields per second. | Fast Electronics | 0181 968 0411 | 23 | 157 | ||
Miro DC1 TV | £577 | llllll | Outstanding performance, very easy to use, very affordable. | Full motion, full frame capture and playback, 24-bit colour. | Miro UK | 01494 510250 | 1 | 110 | recommended | |
Miro DC20 | £750 | lllllm | Superb board with high quality results. | requries PCI card for full frame, 24 bit colour. | Miro UK | 01494 510250 | 17 | 104 | recommended | |
Spea Crunch It | £325 | lllmmm | Let down by poor quality driver. | 16-bit ISA card, Philips and Zoran chipset, VMC connector | Spea | 01844 261886 | 13 | 128 | recommended | |
Truevision Targa 1000 | £2,400 | llllmm | High-end performance for a high-end price. A dream card for professionals. | PCI, 24-bit colour, 16-bit stereo. | Techex | 01628 777800 | 21 | 133 | ||
Videox | £595 | llllmm | Suited to animator or semi-pro editing. | ISA. | Vine Micros | 01843 225714 | 8 | 120 | ||
Digital Cameras | ||||||||||
Casio QV-10 | £680 | lllmmm | Easy to use and compact. Reasonable photographic resolution. Expensive. | 320x240 pixels, 24 bit colour, TFT LCD display, 96 shot 16Mbit memory, weight 190g, 2 hours from 4 AA batteries. | Casio Electronics | 0181 893 2592 | 15 | 96 | ||
Kodak DC 20 | £298 | llllmm | Lack of on camera controls limits functionality, but a good price. | 493x373 or 320x240 pixels, 24-bit colour, 16 shot memory at lowest res, 8 shot at highest. | Kodak | 0800 281487 | 23 | 146 | ||
Kodak DC 40 | £895 | llllmm | Great image quality. Simplistic software. | 750x504 pixels, 24-bit colour, 44-shot memory, weight 0.5Kg. | Kodak | 01442 61122 | 14 | 146 | ||
Kodak DC 50 | £899 | llllmm | An improvement on earlier versions but expensive for a digital camera. | 756x504 pixels, 24-bit colour, 22 shot memory, weight 0.7Kg. | Kodak | 01442 845228 | 20 | 118 | ||
Sanyo Image PC | £400 | llllmm | Good image quality and easonable memory upgrade path, but expensive. | 640x480 pixels in high res, 320x240 in standard, 24-bit colour, max 32 shot memory, weight 0.5Kg | Bannerbridge | 01268 419101 | 25 | 172 |
Last Update: 14/10/96
Name: PC Pro