Good Gadgets and Really Good Gadgets
We all want to know which gadgets are really the best for travel, long-term use and so on. Here's one guy's log:
The Trip: Gadgets get rated. But, if iPod's are too prosaic for gadget tastes, read about this fully analog photographer who's invented a way to get
incredible clarity, the kind spies envy. Unfortunately the article doesn't describe how the camera works.
Mr. Diegert and six other scientists joined Mr. Ross on Tuesday night at his home in Greenwich Village for a presummit dinner and viewing of his whiz-bang camera. The camera, called the R-1 (R for Ross), looks oddly rigged, like something out of Dr. Seuss, and almost like an antique viewfinder camera on legs. In fact, Mr. Ross pulls a cloth over his head and the back of his contraption when he takes a picture. But with this camera that he concocted out of 60-year-old camera parts, mirrors, a microscope and other items - none of them digital - Mr. Ross has taken photographs on 9-by-18-inch negatives that when slowly processed by hand and digitally scanned contain 100 times as much data as the average professional digital camera.
* Ray, 12/09/2004 02:49:23 PM
