"We're going to show you a man actually talking to a computer"

I read about this video in Digital Visions: Computers and Art by Cynthia Goodman.

snowres compairson 0 VQ-1005 vs DSLR

Vistaquest VQ-1005 VQ-3010 Comparison

                  vq-1005                                   vq-3010

Series: Jury Duty

I did a series of street shots while I was downtown on jury duty. My vistaquest was more interested in glitching out these pedestrians, it probably knows best. I'm going to post these roughly every other photo over the next few days so that my photostream doesn't look like a black hole of glitches. Or so that it looks like it is slowly b3coming a black hole of glitches.

Solarized Vistaquest Video

Vistaquest Digital Solarisation / Solarization

Back on July 5, 2008, I got this glitchy image on an overcast day:

This past week as the weather here in Oregon has become more consistently overcast and darker (as the days get shorter) I've started to get a few more of these images.


I'm trying to figure out what what's going on with these and I came up with a working hypothesis. Please feel free to comment and correct any inaccuracies in the following, which is conjecture.

Wiki says film Solarisation / Solarization is caused in the darkroom by exposing film to light. As a consequence of this exposure to light, "parts of the image reversed in tone but a thin line is generated around areas of contrasting tone."

Something similar happens in these Vistaquest VQ-1005 glitches, but it isn't a reversal in tone, but a super saturation in color that seems to take place. This is probably related to the saturation this model of vistaquest is noted for. The line referenced in the above quote seems to have an analog here as well, grouping colors together in large swaths. I've got a pretty good example of the edge detection that can occur with the vistaquest here

Solarisation is a big can of worms if you look at the various forms of film solarisation, photoshop solarisation, and in-camera digital effects. I was tempted to call what happened in my photos pseudo-solarization, but it seems from the wiki, that that term is already taken, so I'll call it Vistaquest Solarisation for the time being.

An example is listed here and here of an early digicam, the Mavica, which included a solarisation effect. I'll try to dig up some more examples and edit this post as appropriate.

Kodak DC20 - Podcast Link

The "Digital Story" has a podcast about getting an old Kodak DC 20 running on a 1990s Mac. There might be some technical information there that helps people out, but perhaps most interesting is where and how he decides to preserve old equipment. I am the exact opposite of this practical preservation (I've probably lost and broken old equipment because I'm not organized), but it suggests how you might stay sane about vintage digital, that is, if you're in to that type of thing.

www.thedigitalstory.com/blog/2008/10/found_treasure_kodak...

As a point of information, you don't need to have preserved your old computer to get one of these working. I was able to use Kodak PictureEasy 3.1.1, an XP machine, and the cable to download these photos. I found the very bottom one on the used camera that I bought.





Finally, check out other photos tagged kodak dc20 on flickr.