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Re: Is Quickcam still a good deal?



Chris Tyler writes:
 > Shouldn't that be...
 > 
 > 	analog -> analog -> analog -> digital
 > 	light     CCD       NTSC      video capture
 > 
 > The charge on each CCD cell after exposure is an analog value,

Yes, in intensity there is only one a/d conversion.  But in X-Y space,
each cell digitizes its entire space.  You can definitely see
beating of the one period against the digitization period for certain
values of each.

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