Gert Says
a rather irreverent discusssion
NEW at Seybold 2000
VFZoom by Digital Publishing Japan
Making their American Debut, DPJ's imaging process converts tiffs to "vector" graphics which compresses them slightly, but more importantly, because they are vector, these same images then can be enlarged %500 with good results,. It also permits streaming of this information and security. What especially caught my eye is all the images were the same on a bank of monitors. Their web site doesn't do their imaging technology justice, but has alot of good information.
Telescope by North Plains Systems
A high end media asset manager with some great video managing. Unfortunately this isn't evident from their site, though there is some fun whiz bangs site stuff there.........
Fugifilm now has a 4.3 megapixel camera (2400x1800)
3x zoom, fits in the pocket, - FinePix 4700
Also Tested out the Olympus Camedia C-211.
Combines Polaroid film and a digital camera and you do get an instant print in 15 seconds, which looks like a small Polaroid photo, including those maddening accurate flesh tones and a 2.1 megapixel file. Don't recommend testing it out after a day of information overload.
And From my two favorite image management systems........
Both Extensis's Portfolio and Canto's Cumulus have added drop down entry choices to their fields. Cumulus will also automatically download information from your digital camera including audio files you make when shooting the image. For those using Desktop Publishing, Portfolio can now view QuarkXP (and other DTP) files, show individual pages in a file and text search on the content
JPEG 2000, as an image file,
is supposed to be around the corner LizardTech will support it, but the Mr. Sid's technology will continue on its own track as it already does all that the JPEG 2000 standard proposes. There is also a Photoshop plug-in for creating Mr. Sid files
