Roll Reader Plans and AMICA
By Bill Chapman
Jody, I sent you an AMICA application packet around the end of November. If you don't get it soon let me know and I'll send another. Maybe its time for AMICA to have an on-line application? I enjoy the Digest and I think you are doing a great job of providing a forum for those interested in exploring and preserving the player era.
I have been following Spencer Chase's project with roll scanning or reading. I had a similar idea in mind, only using a small unit that both sends light and detects it. I was going to use fiber optic tubes run in to the back of the tracker bar. Of course it would reflect from the paper, and not reflect from a hole. It would require shielding from external light, of course.
Later a friend told me I should use a video camera and he would write a program that would read the holes in the video image in the graphic file. I think resolution might suffer, depending on the lens used.
Bill Chapman
AMICA Membership Sect'y
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(Message sent Fri 13 Dec 1996, 17:26:35 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.) |
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