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- From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
- Subject: Re: Video grabber + video camera = scanner ?
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- Organization: UTCS Public Access
- References: <1993Jan12.023100.14838@berlioz.nsc.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:55:04 GMT
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- >I have a video camera, if I purchase the Video Blaster (?) board,
- >which can capture the video image, is it as good an image as a scanner?
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- In some ways it is as good as a scanner or better, in others it falls
- far short. A scanner is much higher resolution normally. A typical
- grab of a video frame is 640x480 pixels. Unles the original is an object
- 2 inches wide or less, the scanner (typically 300 dots per inch) is
- higher resolution. As well, there is considerably more noise in a video signal
- than there is in a scanned image. The dynamic range of a scanner is usually
- better. I think video is normally about equivalent to 16 bit colour where
- the scanner can usually do 24 bit colour. And last but not least (at least
- of the points that leap to my mind!), because of the way colour is handled
- in NTSC video I think there are many colours that NTSC cannot handle
- properly that can be done in printed matter, as well, there are certain
- colours that can be adjacent to eachother in print that NTSC will bleed
- together badly in video.
-
- That said, there are certain times for screen use of images that the
- frame grabber approach is certainly the most economical, quickest and
- most practical solution.
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- tj
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