Re: Digitized cameras

Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:10:03 EDT

At 11:57 PM 7/30/96, Janice Kibbe wrote:
>>My school plans to buy a camera to use for multimedia
>>production using Mac 5400s and 7200s or 7500s.
>
>We purchased to Apple QuickTake camera and to tell you the truth we are
>disappointed. It takes such a long time and so many steps to get the
>pictures from the camera to the hard drive and then to either HyperStudio
>or whatever program we are importing it to. If I had to do it over, I
>would probably have pictures developed onto disk.

You can automate the entire process by using AppleScript. Some sample
scripts are included with the camera software (PhotoFlash). You can also
just mount the camera as a "drive" and get the photos that way. We've had
a QuickTake since they came out and couldn't be happier with it.

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