Subject: Imagine 3 and Opal?
Date: Fri, 6 May 94 02:26:03 -0600
From: feifarek@students.wisc.edu (Matthew J. Feifarek)

Does the 3.0 version still have the OpalVision option with/instead of the
Firecracker button/output?

Does the stage do "real time" tracking as promised?  Can you see what it sees as

you rotate it around?  IMO, this non-feature of imagine is a real pain.

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Also, FYI.  Grapevine is selling A520 composite/RF encoders for 19.95!!!

I got one, and it's not great, and it's probably not even good, but I have NO
video equipment except a crappy VCR, so it works for me.

It looks great hooked right up to my Opal.

I was really surprised, folks.  Certainly the output is better than general VHS
quality coming from a tape.  $20!  Plus you get all kinds of nifty wires and
connectors that would easily add up to >20.  Like an RF modulator etc.

One note:  I have to pry off the plastic case to weasel it on my Opal port,
which seems fine since all of the guts are shielded by metal anyway.

I'm sure I'll be slammed for liking something that is so not-broadcast quality,
but hey for $20 and to VHS consumer decks, this is perfect.  I do have a pretty
good eye for these things, so I'm not just visually inarticulate (I am after all

a nearly graduated artist :)

Take care, and thanks for the answers to the relevant questions above.



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 Matthew J. Feifarek         University of Wisconsin Madison - Art Department

                              "All children are geniuses untill they are 
 feifarek@students.wisc.edu    de-geniused by education" -R.Buckminster Fuller



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