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by Stan Disbrow
Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:06 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: I've got it! Nikon QV-1000C!
Replies: 24
Views: 36365

Hi,

Dang.

OK, I submit. I bid on the silly thing. It has 11 hours to go......

Later!

Stan
by Stan Disbrow
Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:46 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: Nikon E3 on eBay, ends 2005/07/05
Replies: 3
Views: 8128

Hi,

You know, if one hits CTRL-V, then the link copies, but if one hits ALT-V instead, one posts without the URL! :P

Oh, yes, and the thing is *just* like a 14n or a 1Ds. You can tell he's a dreamer, all right! ;)

Later!

Stan
by Stan Disbrow
Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:22 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: I've got it! Nikon QV-1000C!
Replies: 24
Views: 36365

Hi, NAS? What's that? Nikon Acqusition Syndrome? ;) Sounds bad. like there's no cure for it. I think I might be catching it. I'm trying to fight it off, though. Here's how it goes: I've been contemplating bidding on that E3s/565 with the missing shutter button and on/off switch. :) Now, I can't say ...
by Stan Disbrow
Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:33 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: Fuji DS-565 / Nikon E3s on eBay ends 2005/06/26
Replies: 31
Views: 44810

Hi, Now, keep in mind that I'm looking at the pix of the thing on eBay, so that might be misleading. However, it looks to me like the switches themselves are still in place and just the plastic actuation parts are missing. It also looks like those plastic parts just snap into place. I looked at my E...
by Stan Disbrow
Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:27 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: Fuji DS-565 / Nikon E3s on eBay ends 2005/06/26
Replies: 31
Views: 44810

Fuji DS-565 / Nikon E3s on eBay ends 2005/06/26

Hi, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43456&item=7526806819&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW Here's one missing the shutter button. While I can't be 100% sure, I'll bet that the part is still available (and used on other products). Has battery, and we know that the E3 packs ...
by Stan Disbrow
Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:43 pm
Forum: Vintage Kodak DSLRs
Topic: Digital Nikonos RS (Kodak DCS 425, 435)
Replies: 8
Views: 17380

Re: SAGE

SAGE was quite the system... I've researched that system as a side-trip into early man-machine interface protocol/ user input. If I recall, they used light-activated "guns" (actually, pointers) to query/ locate targets displayed on the radar screen. I didn't realize that WOPR came from a ...
by Stan Disbrow
Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:35 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: I've got it! Nikon QV-1000C!
Replies: 24
Views: 36365

Re: QV-1000C diskettes

'Video floppy disk' seems to be the correct name for these things. I'm surprised to see that they're still available on eBay and elsewhere on the web. As far as I can tell (please correct me if I'm wrong) these disks are commonly labelled 'MP-50'. I think these are the same as Canon's VF-50 and Nik...
by Stan Disbrow
Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:17 pm
Forum: Vintage Kodak DSLRs
Topic: Digital Nikonos RS (Kodak DCS 425, 435)
Replies: 8
Views: 17380

Hi, Yep. It was like that for another corporation in New York State, with HQ in Armonk and a dedicated R&D site in Owego that looked more like Fort Knox than a corporate R&D center. In fact, we often referred to it as 'Fort IBM' :P However not all of the 'special products' came out of The Fo...
by Stan Disbrow
Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:01 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: I've got it! Nikon QV-1000C!
Replies: 24
Views: 36365

Hi, Well, I'm home and the first thing I did was go dig up one of those 2" diskettes I have and compare it to the pix on the Nikon site. Looks like mine are 'sort-of the same.' What looks different to me is that the pix for the QV shows an arrow, which I take to mean 'insert this way', which wo...
by Stan Disbrow
Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:56 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: I've got it! Nikon QV-1000C!
Replies: 24
Views: 36365

Hi, All the rest of my questions can probably be answered from the manual and a couple of sample photos from the thing. ;) I looked at that diskette, and it *looks* like what my wetware thinks is what I have packed away with a bunch of other ancient and oddball media. The shot on the Nikon site isn'...
by Stan Disbrow
Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:46 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: I've got it! Nikon QV-1000C!
Replies: 24
Views: 36365

Hi, I think you've used the best method of digitizing the images from the little guy. Use the yellow-ended cable, since that's the video one. The red and white are audio cables, and might not provide as clean a signal to the video capture card. Sometime, when you get a chance, shoot a couple pix of ...
by Stan Disbrow
Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:05 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: I've got it! Nikon QV-1000C!
Replies: 24
Views: 36365

Hi,

Glad to hear that you finally tracked one down! I, also, am looking forward to your write-up on using the cute little critter. :)

Stan
by Stan Disbrow
Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:44 pm
Forum: Vintage Kodak DSLRs
Topic: Digital Nikonos RS (Kodak DCS 425, 435)
Replies: 8
Views: 17380

Hi, Yes, it's pretty common for an R&D shop to produce special models in limited production quantities for specific customers, and then not document said models for the product support folks. Sometimes these 'specials' wind up spawning a high-volume commerecial product, but most of the time they...
by Stan Disbrow
Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:21 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: Weekend trip to Paris
Replies: 15
Views: 24441

Hi, So, maybe it's a 'Quasi-Video 1000 Camera'? :P It would seem to me that 'camera' is rather redundant when most any fool can see that it's a camera. However, marketing does like to accent the obvious, so it might well be so. :P I know from many years of experience that *no one* puts together a Fr...
by Stan Disbrow
Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:01 pm
Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
Topic: Weekend trip to Paris
Replies: 15
Views: 24441

Hi, I'd say that the name means Quasi Video. We in engineering love to use the prefix 'quasi', which means 'to have some resemblance'. I always say it means "sort of, kind of, almost, close". :P So, we know the QV-1000 has an imager and related circuitry from an ENG video camera. However, ...