Re: filmscanners: What is a photomultiplier tube

2001-01-17 Thread Roman Kielich®
At 22:34 16/01/2001 +1000, you wrote: "Roman Kielich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One Nikon LS30 buys at least 2 Nikon cameras. I think you mean one LS2000 buys 2 Nikon cameras, unless Nikon SLRs just got a lot cheaper than last I checked. ;) Rob LS30 was AUD1640, you can have Nikon camera

Re: filmscanners: What is a photomultiplier tube

2001-01-16 Thread IronWorks
canning speed and perform other image processing tasks on the fly." Maris - Original Message - From: "Dieder Bylsma" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 6:50 AM Subject: filmscanners: What is a photomultiplier tube | Ok, what with all t

Re: filmscanners: What is a photomultiplier tube

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Roman Kielich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One Nikon LS30 buys at least 2 Nikon cameras. I think you mean one LS2000 buys 2 Nikon cameras, unless Nikon SLRs just got a lot cheaper than last I checked. ;) Rob

Re: filmscanners: What is a photomultiplier tube

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Geraghty
Tony wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:34:12 +1000 Rob Geraghty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think you mean one LS2000 buys 2 Nikon cameras, unless Nikon SLRs just got a lot cheaper than last I checked. ;) Are F5's that cheap in USA?! I don't know - I live in Australia! I was thinking along the

Re: filmscanners: What is a photomultiplier tube

2001-01-15 Thread Julian Robinson
At 23:50 15/01/01, Dieder wrote: Ok, what with all the discussion about CCDs, A/D conversion etc, what is the difference between the CCDs of a high end scanner and the photomultiplier tubes of a drum scanner. How do they compare, what are their differences? Why is a drum scanner such a high

Re: filmscanners: What is a photomultiplier tube

2001-01-15 Thread rafeb
At 11:43 AM 1/16/01 +1100, Julian wrote: If that is true, then because you only have one sensor, you can engineer it to greater tolerances, and read a smaller spot size and thus get better resolution. Because you only have one sensor too, you can design the amplifier and subsequent circuitry