Michael J. Mahon wrote:
mdj wrote:On Jun 24, 9:48 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:mdj wrote:
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The AppleColor Composite monitor, when in monochrome mode, switches its luminance bandwidth to about 8MHz--a capability almost unique in composite video processing, even in the digital age.I love my AppleColor Composites too, but I'm finding my eyes are starting to struggle with long exposure to anything less that pristine text. Whether this is a function of getting old, or a side effect of now spending so much time in front of higher quality displays I'm not sure :-)I used a monochrome monitor for programming for years, with a 10" TV for color, but a few years back, I set up an AppleColor Composite and it was good enough that I never bothered to set up a monochrome monitor in addition.
One odd thing I tried recently (and this is drifting off-topic just a tad, but it's still related) was plugging my IIc+ into my Sony Digital Handycam (DCR-TRV340 if you're curious). The display on the swing-out LCD is, well, horrible in 80-column mode (totally unreadable through the rainbow swirlies), but on the mono eyepiece it's razor sharp, and even over FireWire 80-column text is readable.
The only catch is that I have to have a project open in iMovie to see the DV stream. I haven't found a workaround for that yet; most of Apple's other tools assume you're going to record the stream straight to disk rather than just monitor it. (If I knew which knob to pull in the Cocoa API, I could just roll my own, but that'd be going *way* off-topic...)
-lee